When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...

Hundreds of the tremors, which have hit Santorini every few minutes for days, have had a magnitude of around 3.0 and are considered “slight” quakes. At over 5.0, ...

But the risk of tremors does not deter as many as 3.4 million people from visiting Santorini each year, dwarfing the 20,000 or so permanent residents of the island.

The Santorini volcano eruption at about 1600 B.C. devastated the island, buried a town, and caused massive earthquakes and flooding that impacted the island of Crete and as far as Egypt.

In addition to Santorini, “tremors have been felt on some nearby islands, including Amorgos, Ios, Anafi, Syros, Naxos, Paros, Antiparos, and Tinos,” Agnos tells Condé Nast Traveler.

Earthquake experts say the more than 200 tremors that have hit the area are not related to the volcano in Santorini, which produced one of the biggest eruptions in human history.

The seismic activity rattling Santorini and other Greek islands is not over and the biggest quake yet could be still to come, a seismologist has warned. Rémy Bossu, Secretary-General of the ...

The Santorini volcano eruption at about 1600 B.C. devastated the island, buried a town, and caused massive earthquakes and flooding that impacted the island of Crete and as far as Egypt.

The Santorini volcano eruption at about 1600 B.C. devastated the island, buried a town, and caused massive earthquakes and flooding that impacted the island of Crete and as far as Egypt.

Hundreds of the tremors, which have hit Santorini every few minutes for days, have had a magnitude of around 3.0 and are considered “slight” quakes. At over 5.0, Wednesday’s quake is ...

Tremors, some with a magnitude above 4, continued to rattle Santorini on Monday. Although these quakes are considered minor or light, authorities have closed schools on Santorini, as well as on ...