The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, arrived this Friday in Santorini, who is still shaken by a wave of earthquakes of a magnitude of up to 5.2, while army units went to the island to reinforce the special emergency teams. “I want to assure the inhabitants of Santorini and the other islands that the State is next to it,” Mitsotakis said after reaching this island of the Aegean Sea, which has been shaken by thousands of earthquakes since January 24. “It is important to prevent situations instead of improvising later,” added the conservative leader and urged the locals to “keep calm” and listen to the civil protection instructions. In the span of five minutes this morning two earthquakes of magnitude 4.2 and 4.8 were registered southwest of the nearby island of love. Between January 26 and February 4, more than 7,700 earthquakes were recorded in the maritime zone, according to the Seismology Laboratory of the University of Athens. “The entire state apparatus is mobilized,” Mitsotakis said and added that a team of experts follows the sequence of earthquakes.
