Earthquake shakes popular holiday spot days after tourists evacuated

A almighty earthquake struck Santorini, days aft a spike successful seismic enactment was recorded connected the volcanic island.

Measuring astatine a magnitude 5.2, it’s the largest earthquake connected the Greek land successful caller weeks, occurring astatine a extent of 5km.

No large harm has been reported but authorities are inspecting aft it struck astir 9 p.m. yesterday evening.

Scores of cars were seen crowding the ferry larboard arsenic residents and tourists evacuated aft the crisp summation successful earthquakes successful caller days.

‘We person a precise aggravated geological improvement to handle,’ Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said from Brussels, wherever helium was attending a European meeting.

‘I privation to inquire our islanders archetypal and foremost to stay calm, to perceive to the instructions of the civilian extortion (authority).’

People person been advised to debar ample indoor gatherings, tiny ports and areas wherever rockslides could occur.

Hotels person been told to drain their swimming pools to trim imaginable gathering damage.

Precautionary measures person besides been carried retired connected respective adjacent islands successful the Aegean Sea, each of which are fashionable vacation destinations aft much than 200 undersea earthquakes were recorded implicit the past 3 days.

Mobile phones crossed Santorini person been blaring with alerts passim the day, informing radical of the imaginable for rockslides.

Experts person said that the seismic enactment connected the island, immoderate of whose astir populated areas are perched connected steep cliffs, volition proceed for weeks.

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