The Santorini Caldera, about 4 miles wide, is a result of a huge volcanic explosion. This event not only changed the island’s ...

Despite Santorini’s timeless appearance, many island structures were destroyed ... tucked inside vines coiled into a round basket shape to protect them from the strong sunlight.

Beaches like Vlychada, on Santorini’s south coast, show off the island’s dramatic terrain formed by thousands of years of volcanic activity. Travel on 06/17/2018 Advertisement ...

Santorini is arc-shaped and has a flooded interior because, in the distant past, colossal eruptions have rapidly excavated a hole out of the center of the island. After each eruption, the ...

Santorini owes its shape to geological phenomena from millennia ago. The island is famed for its caldera – a bowl-shaped crater caused by a volcanic eruption – which was formed by one of the ...

The picturesque crescent-shaped Santorini island is home to a dormant volcano, but an expert committee set up to monitor the situation said an estimated 200 quakes of magnitude 3 or more had been ...

He said Santorini, a volcanic island shaped by catastrophic eruptions, did not face danger from its dormant volcano, but noted that magma was affecting the tremors. “The root cause of the ...

says Preine. In the early days of this swarm, several quakes shook Santorini’s northern caldera basin, the bowl-shaped, sunken edifice at the island’s heart. There were briefly concerns that ...

Tremors have been recorded between the volcanic islands of Santorini and Amorgos ... around 1600 BC, formed Santorini in its current shape. The last eruption in the area occurred in 1950.