The Greek ‘Instagram Island’ Santorini, who thickened 200 earthquakes | Earthquake news

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appealed for calm because hundreds of valid earthquakes left the inhabitants of Santorini Island and his neighbors in the Aegean Sea, they replied.

Records from the European Meditarial Seismological Center (EMSC) showed that earthquakes still appeared a few minutes away from 7 hours on Tuesday (05:00 GMT), with the highest earthquake recorded in Magnitudi 5.1 on Monday afternoon.

Speaking from Brussels, Mitsotakis said that the authorities in recent days monitor the “very intense” geological phenomenon, before soaked “our islanders first of all remain calm.”

Thousands of locals and holidays are left to ferries and flights to abandon Santorini and neighboring islands of Anafi, ios -a Amorgosa, in the midst of fear of trembling, which so far caused minimal damage and without injuries, they could indicate a higher earthquake.

The picturesque Santorini island in the form of a crescent moon is home to a dormant volcano, but the expert committee founded to monitor the situation says that 200 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or more were estimated, but emphasized that the phenomenon is not “associated with volcanic activity”.

A prominent Greek seismologist Gerasimos Papadopoulos warned that the current earthquake sequence – shown on live seismic folders as a growing set of points between the island of Santorini, IOS, Amorgos and Anafi – may indicate a bigger event.

“All scenarios remain open,” Papadopoulos wrote in an internet post.

“The number of trembling has increased, the sizes rose, and the epicenter moved to the northeast. Although these are tectonic earthquakes, not volcanic, the risk level escalated,” he said.

The intensive earthquake of the swarm is watered by the island of Santorini in Greece, leading to evacuation. Earlier today, an earthquake of M5.1 has joined this swarm – the strongest so far. pic.twitter.com/yyjfwvv7asq

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Santorini attracts more than three million visitors annually into their erupted villages built with dramatic cliffs formed by a massive volcanic eruption around 1620 BC, which is considered one of the greatest in human history.

This eruption destroyed a large part of the island, covered the wide area in meters of ash, and it is believed that it contributed to the fall of the ancient Minoan civilization, which flourished in the region.

Although Santorini still has an active volcano, the last noticed eruption occurred in 1950.

“What we have to understand is that Vulcan Santorini produces a very large explosion every 20,000 years,” said Efthymios Lekkas, a seismologist and head of the Committee on the scientific supervision of the Hellenic volcanic bow last week.

“It’s been 3000 years since the last explosion, so we’re ahead of us for a very long time before we face a great explosion.”

Ferry and aircraft full

According to the AFP news agency, about 2,000 people left Santorini Sea on Sunday and Monday, and ferry operators and airlines said they were adding services to help more people after the request of the Ministry of the State for the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection.

In recent years, Instagram fame has brought tourism to the island to the point of saturation, although colder winter weather means that it is still far from the top season.

Kostas Sakavaras, a tourist guide living on the island for 17 years, AFP said that he had never experienced this level of seismic activity before.

“Every three to four hours shook yesterday. It feels different from other times,” he said.

Sakavaras said he left the island with his wife and two children on Sunday, on the ferry full of passengers. “We plan to stay [on the mainland] by the end of the week. I think it will escalate it tomorrow and I hope it will calm down then, “he said.

Emergency crews helped set up a tent on the basketball court next to the main hospital on the island as an area of ​​insinction, while schools closed on all four islands.

Push warnings were also sent to mobile phones, warning people to stick to away from areas where landslides could appear and forbid access to some coastal areas.