Santorini rocked by more earthquakes hours after it was hurled into state of emergency

Santorini, a fashionable tourer hotspot successful Greece, is successful situation mode aft thousands of tremors forced authorities to instrumentality drastic enactment - and astir 15,000 radical person fled since Sunday

Santorini has been rattled by much earthquakes - conscionable hours aft Greek authorities declared a authorities of exigency connected the island.

The island, fashionable with tourists, is successful situation mode aft thousands of tremors forced authorities to instrumentality drastic action. Nearly 15,000 radical person fled their homes determination since Sunday.

Last night, a 4.6-magnitude quake struck the oversea betwixt Santorini and Amorgos astatine 8.16pm section time, followed by a 4.2-magnitude tremor astir 2 hours later. The latest shocks travel aft a almighty 5.2-magnitude earthquake rattled the portion connected Wednesday, the strongest recorded truthful far.

Brits person been warned to avoid visiting aged abandoned buildings and shouldn't be indoor gatherings if they sojourn Santorini this month. The Foreign Office proposal whitethorn alteration pursuing the latest earthquakes truthful tourists should regularly cheque the authorities website amid the bleak situation.

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Chryssa Pappas, a Santorini resident, told reporters this week: "We’re each truly scared. Our land is shaking constantly, and nary 1 seems to cognize what volition hap next."

Greek seismologist Akis Tselepis warned that the aforesaid responsibility enactment liable for the catastrophic 1956 earthquake — which killed 50 radical and injured hundreds — has been reactivated.

The adept told The Sun: “The seismic enactment is not withdrawing, connected the contrary, it is gaining successful momentum. The worst-case script is that we volition again spot an earthquake of the aforesaid magnitude."

Santorini’s Thira Municipality confirmed the exigency measures volition stay successful spot until March 3. It said successful a statement: "A authorities of exigency has been decided to face urgent needs and woody with the consequences that person arisen from the seismic activity."

The island’s melodramatic cliffs person been scarred by landslides, with clouds of particulate rising arsenic rocks clang into the sea. Police person cordoned disconnected ample parts of the island, which is successful the Aegean Sea. It is 1 of Greece's smaller islands, dwarfed by the likes of Crete, Evia and Rhodes astir it.

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