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

He said Santorini, a volcanic island shaped by catastrophic eruptions, did not face danger from its dormant volcano, but ...

The archipelago is Santorini, and Thira is the crescent-shaped island that rises to the east of the caldera (although you will hear Thira called Santorini and vice-versa). To the northwest lies ...

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 ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Multiple earthquakes are rattling Santorini, a volcanic island in Greece ... took its present crescent shape following a massive volcanic eruption in antiquity.

Credit: AP/Petros Giannakouris 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Known as the Minoan eruption, it occurred around 1,600 B.C. and destroyed much of the formerly round island, giving Santorini its current shape. The eruption is believed to have contributed to the ...