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An earthquake activity that is shaking Santorine and other Greek islands has not ended and the largest earthquake is still coming, a earthquake expert has warned.
“Day, or probably weeks” will need to evaluate the extraordinary earthquake, but he said the earthquake is usually in the construction of a major earthquake, said Remi Bosu, secretary general of the European Market’s Seismological Center. –
In recent times, an emergency has been announced in the Idealic Greek island of Santorine during a nearly continuous earthquake, which has almost evacuated visitors and residents’ shelters.
The largest earthquake so far was recorded on Wednesday evening, when an earthquake struck the island with a magnitude 5.2. It was the first person to cross 5.0 since the beginning of the earthquake last week.
Sitting near the boundaries of large -scale African and Eurasian tectonic plates, Centurini often experiences earthquake activity, but for so long and rarely intensified. Along with Santorini, the islands of Amamgos and IOS have also been shaken.
Bosu described the current earthquake activity to shake Santorini – called “an earthquake crowd” – called “very unusual”.
Generally, they say, “What you observe is a huge earthquake, followed by aftershocks, which are less than timely in intensity and frequency.
“Here, we observe a very different (trend). We see that the expansion is increasing over time and the rate is increasing, so this is not normal.
Hundreds of earthquakes, who have killed Santorine every few minutes, were about 3.0 3.0 and is considered a “minor” earthquake. Over 5.0, Wednesday’s earthquake is considered “moderate”. Then with the intensity of 4.0 and above after at least five earthquakes, which is considered “light”.
According to Basu, such behavior is usually a “prediction” activity – akin to earthquake activity that occurs before the main trauma of the sequence – this means that the largest earthquake is still pending.
“That is why Greek authorities are taking precautionary measures,” he said, pointing to organized evacuation and rescue forces.
As the earthquake continued, Greek Prime Minister Cariakos Matsotaks made a brief visit to the island to inspect emergency preparations on Friday morning.
“I want to assure the residents of Santorine and neighboring islands, who are being tested these days, that the state is with them,” he said.
“We hope that this trend will end rapidly and the islands will fully return at its usual pace.”
The Greek earthquake planning and protection organization has estimated that severe earthquake activity could continue for several more days if not in weeks.
While currently not in the peak season, the island of Centaurini is a famous tourist hotspot, which attracts more than 3.4 million tourists a year. It has about 20,000 permanent residents.
About 11,000 people are believed to have fled the island so far due to the earthquake. “We are about to leave because I am afraid, there are constant earthquakes, we have to leave for children, so children can be calm,” said Reuters, 38 -year -old Benny Okalala, who works on Santorini, so children can be calm.
Tourist boat Captain Epithesteopolos, 63, was no less concerned. “Why should we go?” He asked the question. “If anything happens, this happens.”
Greek authorities have arranged extra flights to help people flee to protect the land, but efforts to evacuate Wednesday were complicated, which is not allowed to leave the ports due to strong winds. The general service was resumed by Thursday.
The earthquake islands are not below the Santorine, but are between another island called Santorini and Amamgos.
According to Bosu, they are located about 25 km northeast of Santorine and 20-25 km southwest of Amr Gos.
At this distance, they are felt in Santorine. Basu said, “Of course, when you have such a large number of earthquakes through the population, it causes trouble.” “People in this area are very worried … and it’s logical because no one can tell how it is ready.”
“We have to wait for the least days, or maybe weeks to determine how it can be ready,” he added.
The region last suffered a major earthquake in 1956, when after an earthquake with 7.7 magnitude 7.7 south of the island of Amamgus, followed by 7.2 earthquakes near Santorine. This significantly damaged both islands and also mobilized the 25 meter height (about 80 80 feet). A total of 53 people were killed and 100 injured during the incident.
