Some 9,000 people have already abandoned the Greek Island of Santorini for fear of the earthquakes of magnitude up to 4.8 that for days have shaken the archipelago of the cycles, while The Government has sent emergency equipmentS As a preventive measure.
During the early morning and the morning of this Tuesday More than 50 earthquakes have been recorded In the maritime zone between the islands of Santorini and Amorgos, where on January 24 a high seismic activity that has produced more than 600 tremors began, which have put the authorities on alert.
At 06.09 GMT was registered 18 kilometers to the southwest of amoros, a magnitude 4.8 tremor, while less than an hour later another of 4.7 shook this island again and that of Santorini, iOS and Ánafes, according to the Geodynamic Institute of Athens.
The government decided close the schools of these four islands Until next Friday, while at least nine other islands of the archipelago, where the tremors also feel, classes have been suspended today.
Yesterday, on the island of Santorini, about 25,000 inhabitants and one of Greece’s most tourist destinations, large traffic jams occurred in the streets that lead to the port and the airport, while thousands of locals, workers and tourists tried to leave the island.
The airplanes and ferris from Santorini arrive in completely full Athens, while a large multitude of people remained this morning in the port to be able bound for the Greek capital.
The Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has asked the islanders “They keep calm” And he pointed out that the authorities are “trying to manage a very intense geological phenomenon.”
Special equipment of firefighters has been attended by the island, although so far there have been damage, except some landslides in the island’s boiler.
Seismic activity is not linked to the Santorini volcano
Experts say that the seismic activity of recent days is not linked to the Santorini volcano, but to the underwater failures of the area, although so far you cannot know if the situation will go more or will calm down.
These five failures, of more than 20 kilometers each, They can produce earthquakes up to 7.3 magnitude, like the one that was registered near Amorgos in 1956, and that produced a 30 -meter tsunami that caused the death of 53 people.
Since yesterday, Monday, the epicenters of the earthquakes moved away from Santorini, moving a few kilometers to the east to the island of Amorgos, about 2,000 inhabitants and with a rocky floor that decreases the risk.
This phenomenon that shakes the cycleds is called seismic swarmwhich differs from the earthquakes that happen with a series of replicas, since there is no single earthquake in the sequence of earthquakes that can be defined as the main movement.
The Natural Disaster Management professor, Effthimis Lekkas, stressed on Tuesday that the frequency of tremors has increased to some extent during the last days and that this phenomenon could last “several more days, perhaps even weeks.”
Source: Lasexta
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