Fully reassuring about what is happening with the Santorini volcano, Professor of Seismology and member of the “Institute for the Study and Monitoring of the Santorini Volcano“, Kostas Papazachos.

“Don’t be stressed either you or the islanders. Volcanoes are like people. They are calm but sometimes they wake up. Volcanoes wake up at regular intervals, there is a movement of magma fluid. The most likely scenario is that the volcano will function normally,” Papazachos told Action 24 a few 24 hours after the meeting took place.

He recalled that “in 2011 we saw a similar activity, which lasted 14 months and ultimately did not lead to a volcanic eruption.”

As he explained about volcanoes there is a natural process called “failed eruptions” in which the volcano “wakes up”, the magma moves but returns to calm.

In this context, he explained that “globally, 9 out of 10 volcanoes that go into the next phase return from yellow to green (the second lowest and lowest level of activity).”

He recalled that there were three volcanic eruptions in the 20th century in Santorini, with the last one in 1950, and “no one died.”

“We are talking about very mild phenomena, forget the images from Hollywood movies,” concluded Professor Costas Papazachos.