On the beautiful island that has been affected for several days now by an endless seismic sequence, it was found all week when the show “Where Greece exists” and its presenters Elabia Revi and Giorgos Kourdis. He even remained there with the television twin being separated and on Monday coming out of two different places. Elambia Revi from Trikala and George Kourdis from Santorini.

But how did this week go for them at the top of the news? They themselves write:

“Sunday afternoon, February 2, watching – as everyone else – the intense seismic activity on the island of Santorini, we made the decision the broadcast to come out live from the” noble “of the Cyclades for as long as it was needed. Where there is, after all, there will always be “where there is Greece”. On the same night, reaching the island by air we made our first report: arriving tourists who either ignored the phenomenon or are used to earthquakes, because Santorini is an ideal destination in winter.

After reaching our hotel we felt the first possible earthquake, 4.6 on the Richter scale, and then walked the streets of the island to catch the pulse of the inhabitants, how they feel and how they experience it. There we met dozens of families deciding to sleep in their cars either next to EMAK tents or other open parking. “They have broken our nerves, the kids are scared, we are worried, too,” they tell us.

The day dawns. The first stop was the Santorini volcano, which we visited with the Professor of Geology of the EKPA, Evi Nomikou, who has devoted her scientific research for at least two decades to the island that was born and raised. It explains the phenomenon, as it analyzes it from the data she collects with her team in recent months. “We are always talking about the rift of Anhydros, not about Amorgos who had given the devastating earthquake of 1956. Calm to all,” he stresses, explaining that the earthquakes are tectonic and not volcanic, relinquishing the phobias that all this activity It comes from the Columbus submarine volcano.

“I’m not afraid, my children. I was a four -year -old baby girl when she found this bad. I see the flower I have in my kitchen when I am earthquake and I understand it and say Our Lady put your hand for us and all the people of the world to be all good and to have that too, ”the message of Grandma Koula who the previous one Evening all her children and grandchildren went home to sleep so that grandfather and grandmother would not be alone. “It was like a tornado that suddenly hit us,” the testimony of another survivor of the 1956 murderous earthquake.

Our studio always out, along with people, recording this unprecedented phenomenon and against the winds and the cold cold to always give space and voice to ordinary citizens, to the large families and their children, who have chosen not to leave the island. them, explaining to us what measures they have taken. One of our strongest moments, the night of the fourth, February 5th, when we experienced and recorded the strongest earthquake, the 5.2 on the Richter scale at the time of the report. In both families, children ran to protect either under the lounge table or under the baby bed, having a whistle passed on the throat, which is our wish to remain unnecessary and all this to remain in their minds like a distant childish memory .

Next time is the Pontic of two underwater seismographs in the Santorini maritime area with experts and students with the aim of “catching” those earthquakes that are not easily recorded. “Always calm, we are here so many scientists, don’t worry about the world. We do the best we can. Listen to the experts we are here, “the authorities say.

Last day, George, along with our cameraman Vasilis Vafidis, travel through the beaufort to Thirasia. So close and so far away from Santorini. “Not to come here just for the votes, we are a breath away from Santorini and we have so many problems. To do something for us too, ”said residents who feel absolutely cut off and forgotten.

“We had a all -weather boat with which we felt safe that if something happened it would take us to the hospital or to bring us the necessary commissions now there is no routes and the routes with a little bad weather are interrupted. This brings us insecurity, “they repeat us.

In the small Thirasia of 180 inhabitants we met 14 years after Antonis. In 2010 he had described his life as a young child on the rocks of Thirasia, as well as the tragedy his family had experienced when his father lost his life waiting for the helicopter that would carry him.

With his mother they maintain a tavern and live from it. Adult today spoke to the broadcast camera as one of the young people on the island and conveyed to us that few things have changed since then. He lives with the same anxieties the same isolation but does not put it down by supporting this small place. All that only asks the state, as are the inhabitants of all isolated islands: not to forget them! “