Greece on high alert as multiple earthquakes shake island of Santorini

CBS ^ | 02/02/2025

[mewzilla]

Time from Santorini to Piraeus is 4 to 12 hours on a ferry.

[SunkenCiv]

The eruption that buried the town (modern site name is Akrotiri, can be viewed by tourists last I knew) was preceded some unknown number of years by a quake that damaged structures and apparently led to complete evacuation and abandonment of the island.

This is analogous to the precursor quake that damaged Pompeii more than a decade before the 79 AD eruption that buried it, although being on the mainland, repairs were begun and still ongoing when Vesuvius went kaboom.

Herodotus wrote quite a bit about the island, which in that time was called Calliste, and contrary to frequent claims, the eruption (so-called "super-eruption") that formed the caldera and the bay is prehistoric (at least 20K ago) and didn't destroy Minoan civilization. Neither was the island the "real" Atlantis, that claim was made in the 19th century and gets revived every so often, sometimes as if it's a new, original idea.

Literally the only eruption there that is documented in surviving ancient sources happened about 199 BC, which probably explains why Herodotus (who antedated that year) and Plato (who never wrote about the island at all, and lived even earlier than Herodotus) mention an eruption.

[SunkenCiv]

I should include the transcript, because this guy's voice is horrible, but no, I'm gonna leave this keyboard and kick back for my mid-afternoon nap. :^)

A seismic crisis northeast of Greece's famous island of Santorini has led to school closures due to the fact of an incredibly strong and ongoing earthquake swarm. Yet, while this earthquake swarm might initially appear to be volcanic, a deeper dive shows a likely different origin. So, is there a legitimate concern that a magnitude 6 or 7 quake might strike? Can we predict earthquakes? What is triggering this earthquake swarm? This video will answer all of these questions and discuss the ongoing seismic unrest through the opinion and analysis of a geologist.

Greece Seismic Crisis Update; 1,000+ Earthquakes, Geologist Analysis | 8:02
GeologyHub | 342K subscribers | 7,017 views | February 3, 2025

[mewzilla]

The shaking continues.

Wowza.

Global Quake on YouTube has got a couple of dedicated insets going now...

https://www.youtube.com/live/rvtygG4n6ew?feature=shared

The Greek government is saying the quakes are tectonic in nature.

Hope they’re right.

[mewzilla]

Wonder if Pres. Trump has any plans to involve Naples should the need arise...

[mewzilla]

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/ellada/naigaio/kyklades/santorini-firostefani.html

Live webcams from the island.

[mewzilla]

The English version edition of the newspaper doesn’t seem to include this for some reason, so here’s the Greek version if you have a translator handy...

https://www.kathimerini.gr/society/reportaz/563450593/i-k-sto-stratigeio-toy-geodynamikoy-institoytoy/

Reads to me like its just reassurance that the government is actually doing something to monitor the situation.

And that’s about it.

[mewzilla]

BTW, Episode 8 on Kilauea started last night.

And Iceland is getting close. My money on that one is by Valentine’s Day for the next eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[mewzilla]

Update, not that thus went to press around the time that 5 hit and has not been updated to address whether or not anything has changes after that particular quake...

https://www.kathimerini.gr/society/563452174/i-epanalipsi-toy-1956-kai-ta-senaria-gia-sminoseira-i-seismiki-akoloythia-sto-mikroskopio-epta-epistimonon/

Scroll down to the interview with A. Tselentis.

They bury the lede in Greece, too.

[nicollo]

they also advised residents and hotel owners in Santorini to drain their swimming pools

Not a lot of water pressure on that island, will take a while to refill them tubs.

[BenLurkin]

That has got to be one expensive place to live.

[mewzilla]

Still rattling.

Wowza.

https://www.kathimerini.gr/

https://www.ekathimerini.com/

http://geophysics.geo.auth.gr/ss/station_index_en.html?_ga=2.78762772.1839715454.1738583658-1447562261.1738583657

That last one has the current seismicity.

[Flag_This]

Ruin of Akrotiri (on Santorini), destroyed in that volcanic event, 3600 years ago:

[BenLurkin]

It’s quit3e far from there but couldn’t help wonder if Vesuvius might become active.

[Paul R.]

Who cares about eruptions, with regard to "Atlantis". What about a subsidence event:

[Paul R.]

(Reelfoot Lake, TN. Presently 15,000 acres - shallow areas have filled in some. There is no, so far as is known, subduction zone.)