The seismic movements that for a few weeks have in a non -experience in the inhabitants of the Greek Island of Santorini They could last at least until spring. And although the shaking have not been serious until now (the most intense was 5.3 on the Richter scale), the truth is that the forecast is a more than bad news for a territory that lives and for tourism. “Probably We will pass the Easter with this activitywith fluctuations in the magnitude and frequency of tremors, “explained this week the geologist Dimitrios Papanikolaou, professor at the National University of Athens. What does seem clear, the scientists say, is that the situation will normalize before summer.
Despite these estimates, which accumulates in the subsoil, it is difficult to predict with total precision. Papanikolaou calculates that the magma bag that is causing all this is at a approximate depth of five kilometersin its rise to the surface it generates tensions in the earth’s cortex and active failures of small and medium size. Despite the insistence of the phenomenon, which is repeated day not, the expert rules out that it is a catastrophic case. “It is not something terribly destructive. We are talking about a magnitude 6 in the worst case,” he says.
Of course, if the seismic activity persists, this could activate the Anydros faultthe largest in the area and on which there is an uninhabited islet of the same name. This possibility keeps seismologists, who continue to closely monitor the evolution of this particular seismic chain.
