Santorini Bulges as Magma Balloons Underneath Updated 5:53 pm. ET, September 12, 2012 Santorini locals began to suspect last year that something was afoot with the volcano under their Greek island group. Now satellite radar technology has revealed the source of the symptoms. (See volcano pictures.) The volcano has been quiet for 60 years, and these recent events don't indicate an imminent eruption, said geologist Nomikou Paraskevi of the University of Athens. "It is a reminder that Santorini is an active volcano. "Since the earthquake activity and the rate of bulging have both slowed right down in the last few months, it doesn't look as though the volcano is about to start to erupt, and it is quite likely that it could remain quiet for another few years or decades. Paraskevi and her colleagues studied records of regional seismic activity and spotted, beginning in the January 2011 data, more than a thousand small quakes, most of them imperceptible. The Volcano That Sunk Atlantis? Cracking the Riddle of Dormancy
"Atlantis" Eruption Twice as Big as Previously Believed, Study Suggests August 23, 2006 A volcanic eruption that may have inspired the myth of Atlantis was up to twice as large as previously believed, according to an international team of scientists. The eruption occurred 3,600 years ago on the Santorini archipelago, whose largest island is Thera. Santorini is located in the Aegean Sea about 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of modern-day Greece (map of Greece). The massive explosion may have destroyed the Minoan civilization based on nearby Crete. Writing in this week's issue of the journal Eos, a team of Greek and U.S. researchers estimate that the volcano released 14 cubic miles (60 cubic kilometers) of magma—six times more than the infamous 1883 eruption of Krakatau (Krakatoa). Only one eruption in human history is believed to have been larger: an 1815 explosion of Tambora, in Indonesia, which released 24 cubic miles (100 cubic kilometers) of magma. (Related story: "'Lost Kingdom' Discovered on Volcanic Island in Indonesia [February 27, 2006].)
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