Legendary volcano wakes up

The volcano is said to have buried the city of Atlantis, which is showing signs of waking up, and experts have not yet determined whether it will erupt in the future.

Craters appear faint inside the Greek island belt

The earthquake eruptions occurred on Santorini Island (Greece) about 3600 years ago, sending out 40 to 60 km ³ lava that devastated the ancient civilization of Minoan. This same disaster is said to have created the myth of the lost city of Atlantis. Aerial view, the crater formed a faint arc within the larger island belt of Greece in the Aegean Sea.

Within the next four millennia, the larger submerged crater will undergo a series of small eruptions, like five bursts over the past 600 years, with the last being in 1950. After After 60 years of sleep, Santorini woke up again in January 2011, with shuddering shivers, creating seismic episodes of about 3.2 on the Richter scale, according to the new GPS research on Geophysical Research. Letters.

Experts have installed GPS tracking systems in this area since 2006. Satellites store data recorded by sensors and thus detect when there is movement on the surface of the earth's crust. Scientists discovered that in June 2011, 22 GPS stations here were pushed from a distance of 5 to 32mm in the direction from the crater out of the previous 6 months. Next, they upgraded the existing GPS stations as well as installed two new stations. And data from September 2011 to January 2012 showed that the land near the volcano is bulging with increasing speed, reaching about 180mm / year.

The computer model reconstructing the deformation of the soil in the area shows that this swelling is the result of the process of pushing nearly 14.1 million cubic meters of magma into the cavity that is 4 to 5 km from the surface. Experts believe that this spill is not necessarily a warning sign of a new boom in the near future, but a remnant of the eruption that destroyed the Minoan civilization.'We have witnessed similar incidents at other large craters like Yellowstone, Long Valley California, Campi Flegrei without any eruption,' Fox News quoted Andrew Newman, geophysicist of the Public Institute. Georgia technology.

According to statistics, there are about 90% of cases of invasive cases that do not reach the surface. However, it is unclear whether Santorini volcano is booming, because each volcano seems to be different and cannot impose similar situations elsewhere for the Greek region, according to OurAmazingPlanet guide. expert Newman. Experts continue to keep a close eye on Santorini so that they can give the earliest warning in the worst case. A small eruption could even expel dangerous amounts of ash, or activate landslides and tsunamis in the area.