Athens, Greece – Greek government declared an emergency situation Santorini Hundreds of ground-earthquakes on Thursday shook the resort island for a week.
The Ministry of Civil Protection will offer authorities faster to state resources. 5.2 Vibration follows a magnitude – the most powerful activity as possible since he started January 31 – he hit the end of Wednesday.
The Pavlos Marinakis spokesman confirmed that many emergency services were dried to help the island.
“Sute departments, police, coastal guards, armed forces and emergency medical services immediately strengthened Santorini and the surrounding islands with specialized workers and told journalists.
Despite the effect of minimal damage, it has had earthquake activities He pushed an exoduct Thousands of inhabitants and seasonal staff, especially by evacuating the Greek peninsula by ferry.
Experts say Seismic activity There is no link to the EGEO volcanic activity, but still cannot be said whether the swarm can lead to a stronger earthquake.
“We are still not yet seeing evidence that they would bring a sequence to a conclusion yet.” Vassilis K. Karrastatia, a Seismologist and research director to research at the Athens National Observatory and research director told Journalists. “We’re still in the middle of the road, we haven’t seen any problems, any sign that the regression goes.”
Epicenters of the earthquake are growing clusters between Santorini, Anafi, Amorgos and IOS Islands. Experts see as a substituting underwater location as a factor, significantly reduces the potential of large damage compared to seismic events based on land.
In Santorini, municipal crew members were released by famous cities in the city’s famous city cliffs. The engineer crew also inspected school buildings closed all week.
The Orthodox Church of the Island has asked the residents to help each other during the “great anxiety”.
“The life of the island, very common, taught us to be close to each other. Happy, sad and difficult,” Thiran, Amorgos and islands, Amorgos and the islands, said in an online message.
“That’s how we will face today’s situation,” he added. And through the grace of God, for the good of our islands and their blessed inhabitants, we will heal our siblings, our siblings and his siblings. ”
