With the arrival of Mars, Santorini turns the page on a winter of upheavals as the island had never known since the start of the seismographic statements in 1964. On the Caldeira, serenity has reinstalled. The cement of the white streets has calmed its tremors, the sea has once again become oil and the pearl of the cyclades, as was nicknamed this legendary island born from the collapse of a volcano, has regained its winter tranquility. Since February 28, the earthquakes no longer cross magnitude 4, many are even far below, not perceptible, while at the beginning of the month the earth was shaking every ten minutes, sometimes pushing beyond magnitude 5.
These thousands of earthquakes, which punctuated the islanders in the winter, also fueled a virulent controversy. In this area where seismicity is traditionally important because of the junction of the Eurasian and African plates and where an arc of underwater volcanoes stretches, a part of scientists were betting in January on a purely seismic episode; Others estimated from the start that these permanent vibrations brought the signing of an underwater volcanic activity.
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