It was called Thera then. The crescent shaped island is the Eastern remnant of the volcano.
They keep saying the quakes are the result of plate tectonics. They are very shallow, I hope this isn’t just wishful thinking.
Yes they do. As opposed to volcanic activity. What they are leaving out is that volcanic activity is caused by plate tectonics. Thera went off in about 1500BC and disrupted civilization. Some say Thera was the basis for Atlantis. Due to a rapid ramp up of earthquakes the people fled and crossed the waters to Crete. When Thera blew it created a tsunami that then wiped out the peoples who’d fled to Crete.
The island was called Calliste, then Thera, now Santorini. The only big eruption in human times was about 199 BC. The caldera that is now the bay formed in an eruption at least 10s of 1000s of years ago. Nothing whatever to do with Atlantis, or with the end of the Palace-building period of the Minoan civilization.
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