Worldwide Volcano earthquakes and Volcano earthquake notifications – Greece

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Greece - Santorini latest eruption : 1950
Renowned Santorini (Thera), with its steep-walled caldera rim draped by whitewashed villages overlooking an active volcanic island in the center of a caldera bay, is one of the scenic highlights of the Aegean. The circular island group is composed of overlapping shield volcanoes cut by at least four partially overlapping calderas. The oldest southern caldera was formed about 180,000 years before present (BP), followed by the Skaros caldera about 70,000 years BP, and then the Cape Riva caldera about 21,000 years BP. The youngest caldera formed about 3600 years BP during the Late-Bronze-Age Minoan eruption that forced abandonment of the thriving Aegean Sea island. Post-Minoan eruptions beginning in 197 BC constructed a series of lava domes and flows that form two islands near the center of the caldera. A submarine eruption took place in 1650 AD outside the caldera NE of Thera. The latest eruption at Santorini produced a small lava dome and flow in 1950, accompanied by explosive activity.  (some text & images : Smithsonian Institution)

SRC Location UTC Date/time M D INFORMATION
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece May 17 13:48 PM 2.0 13 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Apr 20 00:10 AM 2.1 8 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Apr 13 17:58 PM 2.4 6 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Mar 29 09:57 AM 2.3 6 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Mar 08 04:35 AM 2.3 12 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Jan 14 03:18 AM 2.9 10 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Dec 27 04:21 AM 2.0 4 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Dec 02 04:02 AM 3.2 2 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Nov 22 19:35 PM 2.5 120 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Nov 22 09:35 AM 3.6 8 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Nov 11 08:19 AM 2.0 6 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Sep 25 16:16 PM 2.1 9 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Sep 18 06:03 AM 2.7 15 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Sep 15 15:17 PM 2.0 7 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Sep 13 14:14 PM 2.5 81 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Aug 14 16:06 PM 2.7 14 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Jul 04 21:53 PM 3.0 2 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Jul 04 10:28 AM 2.4 10 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Jul 03 12:00 PM 2.0 9 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece May 29 01:30 AM 2.6 2 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece May 17 01:45 AM 3.1 157 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece May 08 02:36 AM 2.5 34 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Apr 16 03:37 AM 2.9 10 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Apr 01 06:07 AM 2.4 10 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Mar 05 11:28 AM 2.6 4 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Mar 04 04:56 AM 2.5 3 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Feb 25 13:16 PM 2.4 12 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Feb 18 03:05 AM 2.8 4 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Feb 18 01:40 AM 2.7 4 MAP I Felt It
EMSC Dodecanese Islands, Greece Feb 13 23:59 PM 2.5 10 MAP I Felt It

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MMI II (Very weak shaking) ?
People :
Felt by persons at rest, on upper floors or favorably placed.
MMI III (Weak shaking) ?
People :
Felt indoors; hanging objects may swing, vibration similar to passing of light trucks, duration may be estimated, may not be recognized as an earthquake.
MMI IV (Light shaking) ?
People :
Generally noticed indoors but not outside. Light sleepers may be awakened. Vibration may be likened to the passing of heavy traffic, or to the jolt of a heavy object falling or striking the building.
Fittings :
Doors and windows rattle. Glassware and crockery rattle. Liquids in open vessels may be slightly disturbed. Standing motorcars may rock.
Structures :
Walls and frames of buildings, and partitions and suspended ceilings in commercial buildings, may be heard to creak.
MMI V (Moderate shaking) ?
People :
Generally felt outside, and by almost everyone indoors. Most sleepers awakened. A few people alarmed.
Fittings :
Small unstable objects are displaced or upset. Some glassware and crockery may be broken. Hanging pictures knock against the wall. Open doors may swing. Cupboard doors secured by magnetic catches may open. Pendulum clocks stop, start, or change rate.
Structures :
Some large display windows cracked. A few earthenware toilet fixtures cracked.
MMI VI (Strong shaking) ?
People Felt by all. People and animals alarmed. Many run outside. Difficulty experienced in walking steadily.
Fittings :
Objects fall from shelves. Pictures fall from walls. Some furniture moved on smooth floors, some unsecured free-standing fireplaces moved. Glassware and crockery broken. Very unstable furniture overturned. Small church and school bells ring. Appliances move on bench or table tops. Filing cabinets or "easy glide" drawers may open (or shut).
Structures :
Slight damage to buildings with low standard. Some stucco or cement plaster falls. Large display windows broken. Damage to a few weak domestic chimneys, some may fall.
Environment :
Trees and bushes shake, or are heard to rustle. Loose material may be dislodged from sloping ground, e.g. existing slides, talus slopes, shingle slides.
MMI VII (Very strong shaking) ?
People
General alarm. Difficulty experienced in standing. Noticed by motorcar drivers who may stop.
Fittings :
Large bells ring. Furniture moves on smooth floors, may move on carpeted floors. Substantial damage to fragile contents of buildings.
Structures :
Unreinforced stone and brick walls cracked. Low standard buildings cracked with some minor masonry falls. A few instances of damage to buildings of ordinary workmanship. Unbraced parapets, unbraced brick gables, and architectural ornaments fall. Roofing tiles, especially ridge tiles may be dislodged. Many unreinforced domestic chimneys damaged, often falling from roof-line. Water tanks Type I burst. A few instances of damage to brick veneers and plaster or cement-based linings. Unrestrained water cylinders (hot-water cylinders) may move and leak. Some common windows cracked. Suspended ceilings damaged.
Environment :
Water made turbid by stirred up mud. Small slides such as falls of sand and gravel banks, and small rock-falls from steep slopes and cuttings. Instances of settlement of unconsolidated or wet, or weak soils. Some fine cracks appear in sloping ground. A few instances of liquefaction (i.e. small water and sand ejections).
MMI VIII (Severe shaking) ?
People Alarm may approach panic. Steering of motorcars greatly affected. Structures : Low standard buildings heavily damaged, some collapse. ordinary workmanship buildings damaged, some with partial collapse. Reinforced masonry or concrete buildings damaged in some cases. A few instances of damage to buildings and bridges designed and built to resist earthquakes. Monuments and pre-1976 elevated tanks and factory stacks twisted or brought down. Some pre-1965 infill masonry panels damaged. A few post-1980 brick veneers damaged. Decayed timber piles of houses damaged. Houses not secured to foundations may move. Most unreinforced domestic chimneys damaged, some below roof-line, many brought down. Environment : Cracks appear on steep slopes and in wet ground. Small to moderate slides in roadside cuttings and unsupported excavations. Small water and sand ejections and localized lateral spreading adjacent to streams, canals, lakes, etc.
MMI IX (Violent shaking) ?
Structures Many low standard buildings destroyed. Ordinary workmanship buildings heavily damaged, some collapse. Reinforced masonry or concrete buildings damaged, some with partial collapse. Buildings and bridges designed and built to resist earthquakes damaged in some cases, some with flexible frames seriously damaged. Damage or permanent distortion to some buildings and bridges, designed and built to normal use standards. Houses not secured to foundations shifted off. Brick veneers fall and expose frames. Environment : Cracking of ground conspicuous. Landsliding general on steep slopes. Liquefaction effects intensified and more widespread, with large lateral spreading and flow sliding adjacent to streams, canals, lakes, etc.
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