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Uh oh: Emergency crews deployed on Santorini as an earthquake swarm worries Greek experts
2025-02-03
[KRQE] Schools were closed and emergency crews deployed on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini on Monday after a spike in seismic activity raised concerns about a potentially powerful earthquake.
The last time they had something big there, the Minoan bull-leaping civilization died.
Precautions were also ordered on several nearby Aegean Sea islands — all popular summer vacation destinations — after more than 200 undersea earthquakes were recorded in the area over the past three days.

“We have a very intense geological phenomenon to handle,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said from Brussels, where he was attending a European meeting. “I want to ask our islanders first and foremost to remain calm, to listen to the instructions of the Civil Protection (authority).”

Related from Wikipedia: Minoan eruption (circa 1600 BC).
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Posted by:Procopius2k

#3  Giant hole in the Sun could trigger solar storms in early February

Nothing to do with volcanoes and earthquakes.
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-02-03 15:43  

#2  Update on earthquake swarm
Posted by: DarthVader   2025-02-03 14:37  

#1  Geologist YouTuber goes over this yesterday. It is the Kolumbo volcano just north of Santorini and is still underwater.
Posted by: DarthVader   2025-02-03 10:19  

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