Increasing the volcanic activity at the famous tourist point in Greece Santorini pushed the country’s civil defense minister to call the local and responding officials.
In the end of Wednesday, the climate crisis and the Ministry of Civil Defense stated that the monitoring sensors took a “soft seismic volcanic activity” in Caldera Santorini. Such volcanic activity was recorded in the area in 2011, when it lasted 14 months and ended without causing any problems.
Scientists who monitor the Hellenic Volcanic Arc, which stretches from Peloponnese in southern Greece through the cyclical islands, noted an increase in activity in the central fracture line in the northern Caldera Santorini, the statement said.
“According to scientists, there is no reason to be particularly concerned about the data available currently,” it added.
Santorini-one-to-one-one-one-one-one-one-one tourist tourist destinations, which attract visitors from all over the world for whitewashed houses and blue churches that stick to the edge of the cliff.
It was also the place of one of the largest eruptions of the volcano in the history of mankind, which took place at the bronze age of about 1620 BC, destroying a large part of the island and giving Santorini its current form. It is believed that the eruption contributed to the decline of ancient Minoan civilization that flourished in the region.
Although this is still an active volcano, the last noticeable eruption occurred in 1950.
“The fact that we have to realize is that Santorini volcano produces very large explosions every 20,000 years,” said Ephtimios Leccas, a seismic and head of the Committee on Scientific Monitoring on Holinic Volcanic Arc, on Greece’s television on Thursday. “It has been 3,000 years since the last explosion, so we have a long time before we face the Big Bang.”
During the intervention, the vocabula said, volcanic activity increases and decreases and can cause small earthquakes. “Volcano is a living organism,” he said, adding that “we will not face the big explosion, but a soft procedure.”
Leccas was one of those who attended a meeting on Wednesday, named Civil Defense Minister Vasilis Kikil, together with the head of the Greek fire service, a deputy minister who is engaged in the restoration of natural disasters and several local and regional officials.
