Since the end of January, more than 20,000 earthquakes have been recorded in the maritime area between Amorgos and Santorini.
French scientists from the Research Center of the University of the Côte d’Azur and Greek experts from the Geodynamic Institute will Install seismographers in the maritime area between Amorgos and Santorini in order to better understand the recent seismic activity in the Aegean Sea.
Experts still fail to identify the exact cause of earthquakes that have been shaking this region for several weeks.
“This is a recurring sequence of earthquakes, and we don’t know why it happens, it’s a real mystery”says Maria Sahpazi, director of the Greek geodynamic institute. “It is probably linked to an unpredictable tectonic process, which could very quickly calm down, fade, but just as quickly intensify”.
“This type of seismic activity in series has no rules. All this can be interpreted as the beginning of a new injection of magma into the crust, which could be followed by a more important earthquake or an explosion, but we cannot make an estimate “she continues.
More than 20,000 earthquakes have been recorded in the maritime area between Amorgos and Santorini since the end of January, according to the Kapodistrian National University of Athens.
A seismic activity “of different origin” in Italy
Increased seismic activity Also worried about the inhabitants of the Phllegreans fields, in southern Italy, where more than 550 earthquakes were recorded on Tuesday.
The schools of the city of Pozzuoli, close to the epicenter, were closed and the authorities are still on alert.
But These earthquakes are of different originas explained to Euronews Giovanni Macedonio, physicist and volcano expert at the Vesuvius Observatory of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
” In the Phlegrean fields, we have a local seismicity linked to local volcanism, while in the region of Santorini, the recent earthquakes are due to the collision of the African plate with the plate of the Aegean Sea, therefore a phenomenon large -scale tectonics with even stronger earthquakes “he said.
If the recent earthquakes in this area have not exceeded a magnitude of 4 on the Richter scale, They are particularly noticeable for the inhabitants because their epicenter is very close to the surface.
