Santorini Is Moving Again — 25,000 Quakes and Rising Magma Beneath the Caldera

Описание: In early 2025, more than 25,000 earthquakes struck the Santorini region in just eight weeks.

Eleven thousand people fled the island.
Schools closed.
A state of emergency was declared across the Aegean.

But the seismic swarm was only the surface symptom.

Beneath Santorini’s iconic white cliffs and blue domes, scientists detected something far more unsettling: massive sheets of magma forcing their way through the crust, linking two volcanoes once believed to be separate systems — the Santorini caldera and the submarine giant Kolumbo.

Satellite radar revealed ground uplift.
Gas emissions increased.
Deep tremor signals suggested active magma movement.

Researchers later confirmed that enough molten rock intruded underground to fill 200,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Santorini was not erupting.
But it was recharging.

And Kolumbo — the submarine volcano responsible for the deadly 1650 eruption and tsunami — is now known to share a connected magmatic plumbing system with the caldera itself.

If stress transfers between the two systems…
What happens next?

This documentary breaks down:

The 25,000-earthquake swarm of 2025
The confirmed magma intrusion linking Santorini and Kolumbo
The 1650 Kolumbo eruption and tsunami
The 1956 Amorgos earthquake disaster
New research published in Science on the deep dike intrusion
Tsunami modeling and response time concerns in the Aegean
What scientists can measure — and what they still cannot predict

Santorini’s beauty was born from destruction.
The question is whether the cycle is beginning again.

The instruments are still recording.
The pressure is still building.
And the next signal has not yet arrived.

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