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In response to Santorini’s strongest tremor yet—a 5.3-magnitude earthquake—Greek seismologists agree that it is too early to say seismic activity is subsiding.

Scientists are turning to underwater seismographs in the Santorini Caldera to gain a deeper understanding of the ongoing seismic activity

Greece continues to experience harsh winter conditions, with very low temperatures expected to persist through mid-February. 

Seismologists grow increasingly optimistic as Aegean earthquake activity shows signs of decline.

Ongoing earthquakes rattle Greece's Cycladic islands, but experts believe activity may be slowing.

The constant earthquakes rattling Santorini and the Cyclades have been classified a 'seismic swarm' or an 'earthquake swarm'—but what does that mean?

Digital governance ministry unviels digital map with secure assembly sites for Santorini, Amorgos - site at mysafetyplan.gov.gr

Between 1950 and 2023, Greece recorded 80 major earthquakes that caused significant economic damage, resulted in multiple fatalities, or triggered powerful tsunamis

President of Greece’s Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization highlights key risk areas on Santorini as seismic activity raises concerns over landslides.

In response to the ongoing crisis, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has scheduled an emergency meeting at 1 p.m. today at the Ministry of Civil Protection to address the escalating situation in Santorini and Amorgos

Researchers have put forward two possible explanations for Yoko’s extraordinary conception.

Greece has one of the highest smoking rates in the European Union, significantly increasing the population’s vulnerability to lung cancer

A seismologist from the Hellenic Mediterranean University says Santorini's quakes are foreshocks to a stronger tremor, but rules out a 1956 Amorgos-scale disaster.

A fault just off Anydros is the source of a devastating 7.6 on the Richter scale earthquake in 1956 that nearly leveled Santorini, to the southwest

Twin tremors, 4.8 and 4.5R, were reported on Monday evening, local time, 18 to 20 kilometers south-southwest of Amorgos

At least two local experts express views pointing to a link, even as other scientists insist on tectonic shifts

Consecutive quakes rattle Santorini, reviving memories of the 1956 Amorgos disaster and raising the question—could history repeat itself?

Tremors come as scientists last month announced that volcanic activity has been detected in Santorini's iconic caldera; 3.9R quake recorded off Anafi island after noon, local time

A 20-year-old university student in Patras fell ill after attending classes on Monday and was rushed to a local hospital, where he was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. Tragically, he passed away within 24 hours.

While the recent ban might be seen as a small win for regulating harmful additives, the use of synthetic food dyes has become an international flashpoint to critique the FDA and its inconsistent practices