Thousands of residents have escaped from Santorini after hundreds of earthquakes are recorded near Greece Island in the past 48 hours.
Approximately 9,000 people have left the island from Sunday, and additional emergency flights will be left on Tuesday.
Over 300 earthquakes have been recorded near the island, and some experts say that tremor can last for several weeks. Authorities closed the school and warned large -scale indoor gathering, but Prime Minister Killycos Mitotakis urged him calmly.
Santorini is a popular tourist destination, but February is not a peak sightseeing season, so most of the people are locals.
So far, the Aegean Sea, located northeast of Suntorini on Tuesday so far, has been showing dozens of tremors, measuring large earthquakes at 5:30 pm.
Continuous seismic activities for several days have caused some residents to fall asleep in the car -fear of spending the night at home in case the walls and ceilings enter the cave. Masu.
So far, no major damage on the island has been reported, but emergency measures have been taken as a precautionary measure.
Hundreds of people arrived in the port early in the morning early in the morning and left the ferry toward the mainland.
“Everything is closed. Nobody works. The whole island has become empty,” said a 18 -year -old local residents told Reuters before boarding the boat.
According to Aegean Airlines, about 6,000 local media departs the island by ferry by ferry, and 2,500 to 2,700 passengers fly from Santorini to Athens.
The telecommunications carrier said that nine emergency flights have been added to the schedule following the climate crisis and the Ministry of Civil Protection.
Recently, an estimated 9,000 estimated 9,000 people escaped from Santorini. This is a small island with a population of only 15,500.
The island welcomes millions of tourists every year, but this year’s reservations are minimal, so local residents and workers account for most of the evacuees.
Costus Sakabaras, a tour guide who lived in Suntorini for 18 years, left the island with his wife and children on Monday.
“I thought it would be a better choice to come to the mainland as a precautionary measure,” he told BBC News.
“Nothing has fallen, or that’s the case,” he said. He added that the worst part was a sound. “It’s the most scary part,” said Sakabaras, who plans to go home after the school resumed.
The school will be closed on the island until Friday. Authorities have also warned people to avoid specific areas on the island and empty the swimming pool.
Nicos Zorzos, mayor of Santorini, said that the island was prepared for seismic activities that “it may last for weeks.” He said on Tuesday that the island had to get closer to it, “patience and calm.”
He added that a greater tremor would have appeared, and that there was no plan to build a shelter and provide food in the population.
On Tuesday morning, the government, the army, and the representatives of emergency services gathered to discuss the situation in the climate crisis and the Ministry of Civil Protection.
The Prime Minister will be the chair of a similar meeting on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Mitotakis said on Monday that Greece is working to manage “very intense geological phenomena.”
Seismologists believe that recent tremor is minor, but have taken precautionary measures in case a larger earthquake occurs.
Emergency services warn the residents to leave Ammudi, Armeni, and the old Fira Port for landslide.
The South Aegean Fire Department is located on a general warning team, rescue squad is dispatched, and the crew is monitored in large yellow medical tents on the island.
There are high concerns over hundreds of earthquakes in the Kikurades Islands in Greece, and scientists quickly analyze data to better understand the phenomena.
Most of the strongest earthquakes are born from the area around the small island of AnyDros in the northeast of Santorini.
Since seismic activities in the region are intense, scientists are also alert not only for Santorini but also for Amorgos, Anaphti and Ios.
In the event of a large earthquake, the main problem is the resistance of the building in Santorini due to the characteristics of the soil.
Santorini is known as a volcanic arc in Greece, a chain of an island made by volcanic, but the last big eruption was in the 1950s.
Greek authorities have stated that recent tremor is related to the movement of structural plates instead of volcanic activity.
Scientists are currently unable to predict the exact timing, size, or location of the earthquake.
However, in a world that is helpful for the government to prepare, there are areas that are likely to occur.
The earthquake occurs as a result of a structural plate in the past, under or away from each other. This accumulates stress, causing stress released as an earthquake along the boundary of these plates. This is known as a fault line. The Santorini and the Greece islands are near such a line.
Because scientists cannot predict such events, the best way to prevent damages and lives is to reduce their population vulnerabilities. This can evacuate residents when the design and construction of buildings that can withstand the earthquake begins.
