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Posted on 02/10/2025 11:13:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
Santorini has been hit by a powerful, shallow 5.3 magnitude earthquake, which is the strongest to strike the Greek island during recent seismic activity in the area.
The tremors were felt in Athens on Monday evening and measured a focal depth of 17km (10.6 miles).
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The tourist hotspot has been rocked by seismic activity since January and more than 12,800 quakes have been detected by the University of Athens' Seismological Laboratory.
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Landslides have occurred in many parts of Santorini due to the frequency and intensity of the tremors and experts have not ruled out a major earthquake.
Seismologists were optimistic about the intensity of the quakes starting to subside, but are now concerned they are worsening.
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No injuries have been reported as a result of the earthquakes, which have numbered in the thousands since 26 January, but more than 11,000 people have left the islands.
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Meanwhile the cruise ship Viking Star, with 893 passengers and 470 crew, docked at the port of Souda in Crete early on Monday morning.
It was due to be the first cruise ship of the season in Santorini. The ship changed its route mainly to avoid cable car overcrowding in Santorini during the seismic activity.
The previous strongest quake since the activity started was a 5.2 magnitude on Thursday. Six and above is considered severe.
Greece is one of Europe's most earthquake-prone countries, but scientists are puzzled by the current "clusters" of quakes which have not been linked to a major shock.
Santorini is on what is known as the Hellenic Volcanic Arc, which is a chain of islands created by volcanoes, but the last major eruption was in the 1950s.
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Greek authorities have said the recent tremors were related to tectonic plate movements, not volcanic activity.
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I learned later that Anthony Bourdain dined at the same restaurant...pretty cool.
Magma moving up ...
Neptune is pissed.
Interesting.
I recall Santorini is/was believed to be the remnant of the legendary Atlantis. The island’s last eruption was certainly responsible for the devastation or destruction of at least one civilization on Crete. The Minoans, if my memory is correct.
Didn’t Santorini blow up once upon a time?
This one doesn’t like earthquakes, but I’ll take them over hurricanes and tornadoes, ANY day!!
Not optimistic for the people of Santorini!
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There was a recent 7.6 on the waters south of Cuba and east of Honduras. I noticed because there was a news report suggesting a possible small tsunami hitting Puerto Rico where I have family staying. Maybe the earth is excited over the Trump presidency.
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.
I've lived in a tornado-prone area for over sixty years, and have never seen or heard one. Straight line winds OTOH, we've had those plenty of times. In the late 90s the industrial chimney of the former Storey & Clark piano factory (the name was laid right in the brick, vertically) got cracked in two, leaving only the K and part of the R. The wind was from the west and the whole pile dropped into the parking lot, rather than taking a big chunk out of the middle of what's now condos.
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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I lived in Tornado Alley twice: once as a young bride, with never hide nor hair or hair of tornado, but lots of warnings, and then again farther south, where tornadoes were far more common.
One missed us by less than a mile, and caused LOTS of damage in two towns southwest of us, and one missed my son’s house by half a mile.
I’ve seen the devastation they wreak and the lives they traumatize. It’s the reason I moved back to the Great Southwest, where all I have to deal with are the few minor T-storms, and earthquakes.
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Welp, ya got me there! That says it all! Upon further review, and having pursued your links, I now realize that I am up against a much more formidable researcher! Thank you for “schooling” me. You have shifted my tectonic plates.
My family’s house was destroyed by a tornado when I was 10 y/o. We then moved to a few miles away from Murphysboro, IL - a town part of the worst, most powerful, and longest track tornado in US written history. We now live a little over an hour from Mayfield, KY. (2nd longest track, and would be #1 if it hadn’t “skipped” for a few miles near the TN border.)
And yet... I’d take either of the above two tornados over a repeat of the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquake series. In such an event, I doubt we’d get survival help for everyone for MONTHS, even if Trump does a bang up job fixing disaster response. With all transport in, except air, destroyed again and again, the logistics are impossible. And, God help us if the rivers and reservoirs are high.
My pleasure.
It’s much easier to take cover from a tornado or hurricane than a big quake. Of course, most quakes aren’t severe, but, hey, I’ve never had to worry about a tsunami.
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