There is a massive earthquake swarm occurring right now off the northeast coast of Santorini Volcano in the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo Volcanic Field. Is this earthquake swarm tectonic-only or indicative or an imminent volcanic event? And when is something likely to happen? Geophysicist Stefan Burns investigates
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Kolumbo Volcano is a Sleeping Menace (from Nature):
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00090-5
Research:
2000 - The precursory earthquake swarm in Greece https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-3678
2009 - Evidence of earthquake triggering by the solid earth tides http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.024
2009 - The 1956 earthquake and tsunami in Amorgos, Greece https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04237.x
2021 - The sun as a significant agent provoking earthquakes https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-000266-2
2022 - A review of tidal triggering of global earthquakes https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geog.2022.06.005
2022 - Magma Chamber Detected Beneath an Arc Volcano With Full-Waveform Inversion of Active-Source Seismic Data https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010475
2023 - Complexity of Recent Earthquake Swarms in Greece in Terms of Non-Extensive Statistical Physics https://doi.org/10.3390/e25040667
2024 - Giant offshore pumice deposit records a shallow submarine explosive eruption of ancestral Santorini https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01171-z
Data:
USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
https://www.emsc-csem.org/Special_reports/?id=351
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/santorini-earthquakes.html
https://bbnet2.gein.noa.gr/husn_network/index_en.html
http://www.geophysics.geol.uoa.gr/stations/maps/recent.html
https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHuTGnqvP1Y
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