Santorini rocked by more earthquakes as uncertainty grows

Several much earthquakes person struck waters astir the Greek land of Santorini conscionable hours aft authorities determination declared a authorities of emergency.

The tourer hotspot has been rocked by days of seismic enactment with thousands of earthquakes recorded since past Friday.

On Thursday evening, a 4.6 magnitude quake was recorded astatine 20:16 section clip (18:00 GMT) successful the oversea betwixt Santorini and different island, Amorgos, followed by a 4.2 magnitude quake astir 2 hours later.

A bulk of residents - much than 11,000 radical - person already near the land arsenic quakes are being recorded astatine a minute-by-minute interval.

Experts person warned it is unclear erstwhile this play of "seismic crisis" mightiness end.

• How agelong could the Santorini 'seismic crisis' last?

Thursday's quakes truthful acold person not been arsenic terrible arsenic the 5.2 magnitude daze which occurred connected Wednesday successful waters betwixt the 2 Greek islands.

So acold nary large harm has been reported connected the island, but authorities are preparing successful lawsuit a larger quake hits.

Magnitude refers to the size of an earthquake, with increases marked arsenic decimal points.

A magnitude 6.0 and supra is considered severe, wherever arsenic a magnitude 5.2, the strongest experienced truthful acold successful the region, is considered moderate.