Director of Research at the Geodinomic Institute of the National Observatory of Greece Athanasius GanasSpeaking on Monday morning (17/2) in the television program, revealed that the island Anidros Movies along 7 millimeters per day west.
The scientist noted:
“The new thing we can say is that from the GPS station on Anidros we have already recorded the movement of this island to the west and down approximately 7 millimeters per day. The island moves west/southwest. This is a phenomenon Significantly intensified V 2025 Compared to 2011“.
It is worth noting that today, after a relative seismic “Calm”, A strong earthquake of magnitude occurred 5.1 a score with an epicenter again in the same area, between Santorini And Amorgos.
The epicenter of recent seismic activity is next to Anidros islandand seismologists came to the conclusion that this earthquake is caused by a combination of tectonic and magmatic movements.
“We are observing relative lull. Total with January 31 It happened 2474 Earthquakes. WITH February 12that is, from the past Wednesdaysthe number of earthquakes is reduced, that is, the pace has decreased. This continued in Thursdayand c Fridayand c SaturdayTherefore, our assessment is that we entered the stage of calm, but the phenomenon did not end, these lulls and bursts are in the framework of the evolution of this sequence, which, as I said, is something unprecedented.
This is a series of earthquakes caused by a magmatic movement, that is, the movement of magma in the middle layer of the bark at a depth of about about 10-12 kilometers“ -emphasized Mr. Ckanas. He also explained:
“Magma hit under Calderwe found her in the depths 3 kilometersshe went up to the middle and end Januarythen went to the side Columpowent through Columpo and headed for Anidros. All this sequence, these thousands of earthquakes and today's 5.1, occur next to Anidrosin the radius 10 kilometers Around this island. “
He hastened to clarify that the phenomenon does not go to the end:
“What we said yesterday in the committee is that we have a lull that continues. There is also a deformation, that is, the movements that we fix using GPS and satellites did not stop. Although raising Calders It stopped, the horizontal movement continues. There was a radial deformation from all sides. For buildings, this does not mean anything, the buildings are safe. ”
Then the seismologist added:
“We cannot exclude anything, because we are still studying it. Judging by what we see at the moment, there is no such risk. Scenarios about the new volcano are extreme scenarios, we scientists are guided by our data. At the moment, there is no threat of a volcanic eruption, nor the formation of a new volcano. ”
As for the script of a strong earthquake about 6 pointshe specified that this scenario was postponed, but did not disappear completely from the agenda.
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