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Kostas Papazachos, a professor of seismology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, told broadcaster ERT that the authorities had to allow for the situation to continue for most or all of February.

An official account of the meeting released by No 10 made no mention of them, though Greece's public broadcaster ERT claimed they had been raised in the talks.

On Thursday morning, the storm had moved towards the island of Evia were some villages in northern Evia have been ordered to evacuate, state ERT TV said.

“But the full rebuilding of the railway network will take a long time … and a lot of money,” Tachiaos told state-run ERT television.

"I don't think we have realised the magnitude of this disaster yet," Professor Efthymios Lekkas, a disaster management expert, told state broadcaster ERT on Friday.