London – On Wednesday, tourists continued to flee on the Greek island of Santorini – the fourth day of the exodus, which caused a number of earthquakes that shocked the incredibly popular European holiday place. About 7,000 people left the island in the southeast of the Greek mainland because Earthquakes started last weekAccording to AFP news agency.
Most visitors left the ferry, but there were also flights.
As of Tuesday, more than 1000 earthquakes, with the value of up to 5.2 on The scale of the Richterwas recorded near the island, most of them were concentrated only 15 miles from its shores in the Aegean, reports Euro-secondary seismology center.
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EFTHISOS Lekkas, Head of the State Organization for Earthquake Planning and Protection, told Greek national television that the earthquakes were moving north, from the island, the Associated Press reports.
“It can last a few days or a few weeks,” he said. “We are unable to predict the evolution of the sequence over time.”
This is the unpredictability of the earthquakes that driven people from the island – no one can say exactly whether hundreds of small earthquakes mean.
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“I understand the fear of what it means at the moment to be on a constant moving,” said Prime Minister Kirakas Missatakis, urging the residents to remain calm and follow any instructions provided by officials.
Experts have informed the French news agency AFP that the region has not felt such intensive seismic activity since the records began in 1964.
Santorini is sitting in a volcano that has not flashed since 1950, but the expert committee said on Monday that the current earthquake rash “was not associated with volcanic activities.”
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“That's otherwise this time”
While the earthquakes left cracks in some buildings, no significant injuries and injuries were reported. In the neighboring islands, Anaph, iOS and Amorgos are also not reported.
Schools in all four islands were also closed during the week as a precaution, and Santorini reversed public events and restricted the arrival on the island.
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About 3.4 million people visited Santorini in 2023, AFP reports.
Panagiotis Hatzigeorgious, a retired police officer and a ship that has been living on the island for more than 30 years, said the AP that he would not leave, despite the invitation to remain with relatives in the Greek capital, Athens.
“Elderly residents are used to earthquakes,” he said. “But this time this is different. This is not the same thing that earthquakes every two or a minute.”
“The main thing is not to worry,” he said with laughter, “Now we can listen to music alone and drink coffee for yourself.”