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 ...

crescent-shaped island of Thira is home to several towns, historic sites and beaches. Perched along the cliffs of central western Thira overlooking the caldera, is Santorini's capital, Fira.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

For over three millennia, this ancient Greek grape has survived harsh island conditions in the southern Aegean Sea. Now, it’s ...