Apparently there a lot of AI fake eruption videos of Santorini doing the rounds.
Still not clear what is happening. Ongoing discussion of geoscientists:
And this publication from French CNRS.
The current seismic crisis is therefore being closely monitored by the international scientific community. The preliminary location of the seismic signals seems to indicate a tectonic origin, i.e. movements along the already known and historically active Amorgos fault, oriented southwest – northeast between Santorini and Amorgos.
But the analysis of the geodetic signals also shows a swelling of the area with a propagation from the island of Santorini towards the seismic swarm, a phenomenon that could also result from movements of magma in depth, in a context of extension of the Eurasian plate.
Such a phenomenon had already been observed in the same region of the Cyclades between 2011 and 2012, without this leading to volcanic activity on the surface.
Even the terrain surface is bulging. Anyway, it may get worse, or it may not happen much as in 2011/2012.
I have an app that can send me a push notification for any earthquake above a certain threshold.
A while ago, when I was about to get out of my car at home, I noticed a notification for an M9 earthquake near Pozzuli (the town next to the Phlegreian Fields).
That was a pretty unsettling moment and I clicked on the notification for more information.
It turns out the actual earthquake was just an M0.9 and somehow the decimal point had been fumbled.
They sent an apologetic correction notification a few minutes later.
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Small hiccup or a sign of bigger things to come?
Maybe if geologists (scientists who look down) and astronomers (scientists who look up) look more often to each other, some of the events could be better explained… Last year there were 50x maximum solar flares (=solar storms), and it seems that there is more than just an anecdotical correlation between some of the sun outbursts and the reaction of the earth core…beyond just magnetism On the correlation between solar activity and large earthquakes worldwide | Scientific Reports
Back to the OP, seems the earthquakes on Santorini have lessened.
Yeah, seems to be diminishing, could also be the proverbial calm before the storm.
Somehow I love volcanos, the first one I climbed was Popocatapetl in Mexico, rode a motorbike up Etna, drank red wine on the flanks of Stromboli and sailed among the volcanoes of south east Asia
First earthquake was in Mexico City and it put the poops up me trying to remember what to do in an earthquake. Duck under a table or stand in a doorway, in the end I dragged a table under the doorway and cowered there for an hour.
I went up the volcano Mount Batur in Bali back in 1974. It started trembling a bit so the guide said we have to leave because the gods are getting angry.
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