Earthquakes in the Cyclades: “We are alert to possible activation of the volcano of Santorini,” says Vougioukalakis

As a first phase of little concern he described the activity that has been observed in Calderas in the last few days, on the island where hundreds of earthquakes have been recorded in two days, the volcanologist, George Vougioukalakis. “From the evidence we have known that at this time the active volcano within Caldera is in a first phase of minor concern, which we are monitoring with a multitude of machinery,” he reported in LiveNews, the volcanologist, former president of the Institute for the Study and Monitoring of Santorini Volcano. CORVERSE However, as the scientists explained, they are constantly alert “to have any conclusion that will help us deal with a situation that may come if the volcano decides to activate.” As he has explained, so far there is no possibility. “It continues to excite and we expect it to evolve,” he said, noting that it “probably evolves as in 2011 and 2012, i.e. to resleep the volcano”. For Columbus, the underwater volcano in Santorini, said that to date it does not seem to have been affected by seismic activity. The epicenters of earthquakes are all shifted east, northeast of Colombo.