Thousands of population from the Greek island of Santorini escapes amid a wave of seismic activity.
About 6000 people have left the island in the phrase since Sunday, according to the local media, as it is scheduled to leave the emergency flights on Tuesday.
More than 300 earthquakes have been registered over the past 48 hours near the island – and some experts say that tremors may last for weeks. The authorities closed schools throughout the week and warned of large internal gatherings, but Prime Minister Kyricus Mitsotakis urged calm.
Santorini is a famous tourist destination known for its white buildings, but most of those who leave the locals, where February is outside the tourist peak season.
Several tremors, which reach a size of 4.7, northeast of Santorini early on Tuesday.
Although no significant damage has been reported yet, emergency measures are taken as a preventive measure.
Hundreds of people are in a port in the early hours of Tuesday morning on the ferry leaving to the mainland.
“Everything is closed. No one is working now. I emptied the entire island,” a 18 -year -old local population told Reuters before riding the ship.
In addition to 6000 people who have left the island in the phrase on Sunday, about 2,500 to 2,700 passengers will transport them from Santorini to Athens via a plane on Monday and Tuesday, according to Aegean Airlines.
The carrier said that it added three emergency trips to its schedule, with an area of hundreds of passengers, after a request from the Ministry of Climate and Civil Protection Crisis.
Santorini is a small island with a population of only 15,500 people. He welcomes millions of tourists every year.
Kostas Sakavaras, a tourist guide who lived in Santorini for 18 years, left the island with his wife and children on Monday.
“We have considered it better to come to the mainland as a preventive measure,” BBC News told BBC News.
“Not anything fell, or anything like that,” he said, adding that the worst part was the sound. “This is the most frightening part of it,” said Mr. Sakafaras, who is planning to return home as soon as schools reopen.
Schools are scheduled to remain closed on the island until Friday. The authorities also warned people against avoiding certain areas of the island and emptying their swimming pools.
Prime Minister Mitsotakis said on Monday that Greece was working to manage a “very extensive geological phenomenon.”
Seismologists consider the recent tremors simple, but preventive measures have been placed in the event of a larger earthquake.
Emergency services have warned the population against leaving the Ammoudi, Armeni and Old Fira regions due to the landslides.
The regional firefighting department was placed in the south of Free Aegean on public alert teams and rescue teams were sent, with the monitoring of the teams from the large yellow medical tents on the island.
Santorini on what is known as the Hellenic Sagittarius – a series of islands created by volcanoes – but the last large eruption was in the fifties.
The Greek authorities said that the recent tremors were linked to tectonic platelet movements instead of volcanic activity.
