Santorini’s Greece’s ‘Instagram Island’ earthquake surrounded by 200 earthquakes

Greek Prime Minister Kirkos Mitsotachis appealed to calm down as hundreds of rolling earthquakes have left the inhabitants of the island of Santorini, and its neighboring in the Egion Sea.

The records of the European-Mediterranean Ceemological Center (EMSC) revealed that in addition to a few minutes on Tuesday (05:00 GMT), as a few minutes, with the biggest earthquake recorded on the magnitude 5.1 on Monday afternoon, on Monday afternoon. Apart from was continuing.

Speaking to Brussels, Mitsotcice said that the authorities have been monitoring “very acute” geological phenomena in recent times, before “urge our islands to remain calm”.

Thousands of local people and the holidays are crowded on ghats and flights to release the neighboring islands of Santorini and Anafi, iOS and AMOROGOS, which fears between shocks, which have been minimal damage so far and no injury, This may indicate that a major earthquake is coming.

The picturesque ardhachandrakar Santorini Island is the home of a dormant volcano, but an expert committee established to monitor the situation said that an estimated 200 quake of 3 or more was registered, but insisted that the incident “did not linked with” volcanic activity ” Was” .

Prominent Greek earthquakeder garasimos papadopolos warned that the current earthquake sequence – santorini, is displayed on live seismic maps as a growing cluster of dots among the islands of Santorini, iOS, AMOROGOS and Anafi – can indicate a large adjacent phenomenon.

“All landscapes remain open,” Papadopolos wrote in an online post.

“The number of shocks has increased, magnitude has increased, and the epicentation has moved to the Northeast. Although these are tectonic quakes, not volcanoes, the level of risk has increased, ”he said.

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Santorini attracted more than three million visitors annually in her white villages, built with dramatic rocks formed by a large -scale volcanic explosion around 1620 BCE, which is considered the largest in human history.

The explosion destroyed a large part of the island, a blanket to a wide area in the ash meter and is believed to have contributed to the decline of ancient minoan civilization, which had flourished in the region.

Although Santorini still has an active volcano, the final notable explosion occurred in 1950.

“We should realize that the Centorini Volcano produces very large explosions every 20,000 years,” said Fethimios Lakes, head of the Scientific Monitoring Committee and head of the scientific monitoring committee for the helenic volcanic chap.

“It has been 3,000 years since the previous explosion, so we have a very long time ahead of us before facing a big explosion.”

Ghat and aircraft full

According to the AFP news agency, some 2,000 people left Santorini from the sea on Sunday and Monday, in which Ferry operators and Airlines said they leave more people after a request for climate crisis and civil security for the ministry of the country. Was adding services to help in.

In recent years, Instagram fame has brought tourism to the saturation point on the island, although the cooler winter season means that it is far from the extreme season.

Kostas Sakvaras, a tourist guide on island for 17 years, told AFP that he had never experienced this level of seismic activity before.

“It was shaking every three to four hours yesterday. It seems different from other times, ”he said.

Sakvaras said that he left the island on a boat filled with passengers on Sunday, along with his wife and two children. “We plan to live by the end of the week (on the mainland). I think it’s going to move forward tomorrow and I hope it will calm down, ”he said.

Emergency employees have helped install tents in a basketball court next to the island’s main hospital, while as a staging area while schools are closed on all four islands.

Push alerts have also been sent on mobile phones, warning people to stay away from areas where rockslides may occur, and can ban access to some coastal areas.