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Published on: 04/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has appealed for calm as hundreds of rolling earthquakes have rattled residents of Santorini island and its neighbours in the Aegean Sea. Records from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) showed the quakes were continuing to occur a few minutes apart as of 7am on Tuesday (05:00 GMT), with the largest quake recorded at magnitude 5.1 on Monday afternoon. Santorini draws more than three million visitors annually to its whitewashed villages built along dramatic cliffs formed by a massive volcanic eruption around 1620 BC. That eruption destroyed a large part of the island, blanketed a wide area in metres of ash and is believed to have contributed to the decline of the ancient Minoan civilisation. I think it’s going to escalate tomorrow and I hope then it will calm down. Emergency crews have helped set up tents in a basketball court next to the island’s main hospital as a staging area. Push alerts have also been sent to mobile phones.

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