{"id":501553,"date":"2026-03-30T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/?p=501553"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:33:41","slug":"o-egkelados-epestrepse-sto-mouseio-fysikis-istorias-kritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/archives\/501553","title":{"rendered":"How often do earthquakes occur in Heraklion?"},"content":{"rendered":"\u201cEgkelados<\/strong>\u201d at the Natural History Museum of Crete has regained his shape \u2013 and his spot \u2013 under the Museum\u2019s earthquake simulator<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

In his new position, he triggers frequent earthquakes at the top of every hour, with magnitudes ranging from 5 to 7.6 on the Richter scale.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the Museum\u2019s exhibitions are still available for you to explore!<\/em>
\nMore information can be found here: https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/exhibition\/visiting-the-museum\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> & https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/exhibition\/what-will-i-see\/permanent-exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n

Museum Opening Hours:
\n<\/strong>Monday \u2013 Friday: 09:00 \u2013 15:00 (November-April) \/\u00a0Monday \u2013 Friday: 09:00 \u2013 17:00 (May-October)
\nSaturday \u2013 Sunday: 10:00 \u2013 18:00<\/p>\n

Rock your world in our earthquake simulator!<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cEgkelados\u201d at the Natural History Museum of Crete has regained his shape \u2013 and his spot \u2013 under the Museum\u2019s earthquake simulator! In his new position, he triggers frequent earthquakes at the top of every hour, with magnitudes ranging from 5 to 7.6 on the Richter scale. The rest of the Museum\u2019s exhibitions are still available for you to explore! More information can be found here: https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/exhibition\/visiting-the-museum\u00a0\u00a0 & https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/exhibition\/what-will-i-see\/permanent-exhibition Museum Opening Hours: Monday \u2013 Friday: 09:00 \u2013 15:00 (November-April) \/\u00a0Monday \u2013 Friday: 09:00 \u2013 17:00 (May-October) Saturday \u2013 Sunday: 10:00 \u2013 18:00 Rock your world in our earthquake simulator!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":501055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-501553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-press"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501561,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501553\/revisions\/501561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhmc.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}