The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences rebuts information that an earthquake was registered in southwestern Bulgaria overnight. File photo
The Geophysics Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences disproved earlier information about an earthquake in southwestern Bulgaria Saturday.
Emil Botev, from the Institute, told the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR, the information of the European Mediterranean Seismological Center of a 3.9-point magnitude on the Richter scale earthquake was inaccurate.
Botev said it was submitted by Greek seismologists, and it concerned a wave of earthquakes on the other side of the globe, near Alaska.
"There has not been an earthquake on Bulgarian territory; the report does not come from a Bulgarian source," he said.
It was reported earlier by the European Mediterranean Seismological Center that a 3.9-point magnitude on the Richter scale earthquake was registered 13 km south of the town of Gotse Delchev at 0:34 am Saturday.