“We have a way ahead of us,” points out in his post on social media Akis Zelentis on seismic activity in the Cyclades and stresses that the two large volcanoes of Santorini, New Kameni and Columbus have not yet been activated.

It also notes that at present We have a rise of magma trying to find escape to the surface to relieve excessive pressure.

“But we still do not know if it will come to the bottom of a new area near Anhydros or Columbus itself,” he adds.

Mr. Zelentis points out that it is where early to draw conclusions and urges people to continue taking precaution measures

Akis Zelentis’ post in detail

“I don’t see the tree and I miss the forest.”

In science there must be an open mind, not dogmatism and parodies but spherical thought and imagination. The fanaticism we see for hours in every crisis, either seismological, meteorological, or medicine (see the misery made with the compulsory vaccinations that have imposed us here in Greece for Covid-19 to bring out some billions of companies, one of which In fact, he had the audacity to award the political leadership for the supposedly wise crisis management), it only leads us to a scientific middle age.

You may have experienced a drastic decline in earthquakes in the last two 24 hours, but they are still happening with sizes that you do not understand. I present to you the seismicity we recorded in Geodynamics in the last 24 hours!

I understand the anxiety of professionals but it is not allowed with this apparent reduction in the feelings of earthquakes to take on the role of specialist hoteliers and politicians and to make announcements of “we went through the crisis and tourists can continue to come” (host them ” In these illegal traps of death on the eyebrow and scratch them with unreal rents!)

That is why I insist that it is very early on such conclusions and you have to continue to take precautionary measures. We have a road in front of us.

I quote in a few words what we have understood so far that is happening in the area.

As in the early days I mentioned there is a two -way earthquake and volcanic relationship. The intense seismic sequence observed in the last 20 days is a naming nature, that is, initially magical cause, but then acquires tectonic properties.

As the magma rises it increases the pressure on the rocks. This upward movement causes breakage to the rocks, ie pure volcanic microisms.

At the same time there is also an increase in bark voltages by activating smokers causing purely tectonic earthquakes.

From the distribution of the earthquakes of earthquakes in space (in the 3D blue shape (where the vertical axis shows the depth), there is a dispersion a (randomness) rather than concentration near a fault. They also start very shallow of 4 km just depth and reach 20 km.

The data so far show that the 2 large volcanoes in the area of ​​New Kameni and Columbus have not been activated.

NE of Columbus There is a structure with 18 volcanic cones.

The red arrow shows the main crater of Columbus and with the red circle the area where the seismic vibrations are observed.

So we have a rise of a magma trying to escape the surface to relieve excessive pressure! But we still do not know if it will come to the bottom of a new area near Anhydros or Columbus itself.

Let us not forget that the earth is a body like human and everything that happens in neighboring areas can play its role and affect.

For example, the explosion of Etna and Stromboli volcanoes in neighboring Sikelia may have a positive contribution to the relief of pressure in our wider area. Paractic thought and logic!

Let us hope that possible lava outflow in the coming days or weeks are mild and not explosive (whether it happens in Columbus or northeast to the anhydrous). Let us also hope that the Amorgos rift will not be activated that gave the 1956 earthquake. But the tectonic scenario of the 6R of 6R remains and must be in view of a long time, even if the seismicity has stopped drastically. “