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While experts cannot predict future earthquakes, Efthymis Lekkas, the head of the Hellenic Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization, told a Greece broadcaster that a larger earthquake isn ...
Multiple earthquakes are rattling Santorini, a volcanic island in Greece, prompting authorities to dispatch rescuers with tents, a sniffer dog and drones, and to shut schools on four islands.
Earthquakes rattled Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes through the night and into Wednesday as authorities bolstered their emergency plans in case the temblors are a ...
The fault line producing the earthquakes runs for about 120 kilometers (75 miles), but so far only part of it, between the islands of Santorini and Amorgos, has been activated. The epicenters are beneath the seabed, which scientists say is good news, as quakes centered beneath land could potentially be more destructive.
The 2025 Santorini earthquakes refer to a series of seismic events that began in February 2025, on and around the Greek island of Santorini. The events prompted emergency measures across several Aegean islands and raised concerns about potential stronger seismic activity in the region.
In mainland Greece, normal faulting gives earthquakes up to 7 in magnitude, while in the northern Aegean, strike-slip events with a magnitude of 7.2 have been recorded. Large intermediate depth (>50 km) earthquakes of magnitude >7 from within the subducting African plate have been recorded but such events cause little damage, although they are ...
Geologists today estimate the undersea earthquake to have been a moment magnitude 8.5 or higher. [5] It caused widespread destruction in the central and southern Diocese of Macedonia (modern Greece), Africa Proconsularis (northern Libya), Egypt, Cyprus, Sicily, [7] and Hispania . [8] On Crete, nearly all towns were destroyed. [5]
Another swarm of earthquakes shook the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea on Tuesday, including the popular tourist destination of Santorini, officially known as Thira.. A magnitude 5.3 earthquake ...