Lekkas for earthquakes in the Cyclades: We may have a vibration a little greater than 5 Richter that will help reduce the phenomenon more rapidly.

The president of the Organization for Anti-Semitism and Protection (OASP), Euthymios Lekkas, who is located in Santorini, spoke to them. Efthymios Lekkas stressed, among other things, that earthquakes in the Cyclades continue unabated and today with sizes of 4 to 5 Richter and stressed that this is not an activation of the fault that had given the great earthquake of 1956. CORVERSE As stated in particular: “The seismic activity remains unabated and today, we have quite large sizes of 4 to 5 degrees. These are sizes that become strongly noticeable to the inhabitants of the island and of course this activity is developing to the northeast now, that is, near Amorgos. So it seems that we have the activation of fractures that do not correspond to the fault that gave the great earthquake of 1956. Either way, this breach was unable to give a great earthquake because it has defuseed its very great energy in 1956 and reloaded energy. It should be thousands of years. So we have the activation of smaller fractures to the northwest of the fault of Amorgos.” Differences between Amorgos and Santorini went on to say: “The activity is limited near Amorgos, so this is a positive element, because Santorini is particularly vulnerable and vulnerable in relation to Amorgos always. Amorgos has rocky formations, has few buildings, we don’t have much area, so we don’t worry if these epicenters were close to Santorini, Santorini is characterized by the completely opposite factors and parameters. It is therefore a positive element. As well as a positive element, we have also analysed in the Commission that this seismic activity has nothing but nothing to do with the evolving seismic processes in Caldera and Columbus. These two activities are not linked, they are completely different, at least so far. CORVERSE There is no serious cause for concern, of course they are people who fear earthquakes and they are naturally leaving the island. They are workers who work on the island from time to time, so they also leave the island, a number. But I believe that the whole population of the island, unless they are in a special category, are very calm and very good at earthquakes. In fact during the day we had four quite large earthquakes of the order of 4.8 that became particularly felt. The reaction was very normal and very calm one would say.” Evacuation of the phenomenon and instructions Euthymios Lekkas stated that: “If we had a severe seismic phenomenon there would have been a faster depreciation, here we are not dealing with a main earthquake which is much larger than the rest and we would go to a phase of rapid depreciation of seismic activity. Here we have a long sequence of earthquakes that reach 5 Richter and this can last several days or several weeks. We are unable to predict the evolution of the sequence in time. The public buildings are in the control phase, the competent agency will check the buildings. From there, Santorini is characterized by a structured web where it is in a wide range. That is, of the very old buildings, the ruined buildings, the buildings made in the 60s, 70s, 80s, modern buildings, are the whole spectrum. That is why we have given the directive to the residents, the committees in the two committees have instructed them not to reside in houses which are too old or not to pass through ruined or abandoned buildings. And of course to be careful not to go through areas where we have morphological inconsistencies and it is possible to manifest landslide phenomena.” The possible scenarios Finally, the president of the OASP, noted that: “The Earthquake Risk Assessment Committee, the Volcanic Risk Assessment Committee will meet again Wednesday. I’ve invited the members of the two committees, 8 o’clock in the morning to meet, to see the evolving processes and from there we can’t predict anything about the duration I repeat, because the size we’ve said will be very difficult to exceed 5.5. One unlikely scenario is to go up to 6, where it is the minimum chance that such an earthquake will occur. I believe that we may have an earthquake a little larger than 5, which will help reduce the phenomenon more rapidly. Just over 5 will have no impact on Santorini. There is a scenario at 5.5 where there may be some minor effects and, of course, the scenario of 6 points, is a scenario that gathers little would say odds.”