A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

An intense swarm of earthquakes around Greece’s Santorini Island in January has revealed a fiery underground link between two neighboring and historically explosive volcanoes. Analyses of seismic ...

In early 2025, the Greek island of Santorini went through one of the most intense earthquake events ever recorded. Over just one month, scientists detected around 25,000 earthquakes, sometimes more ...

A mysterious swarm of earthquakes that occurred near the Greek island of Santorini in early 2025 was caused by rebounding sheets of magma slicing through Earth's crust, according to a new study by an ...

In late January, something began to stir beneath the idyllic Greek islands of Santorini, Amorgos, and Anafi. These Aegean islands experienced a rapid-fire sequence of over 28,000 earthquakes, ...

The eastern Mediterranean region and Egypt, showing the location of the Thera (Santorini) volcano and other places mentioned in the text. Their findings were published in PLOS One last month. Prof.

An international research team led by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel set sail today to gain new insights into the volcanic system off the Greek island group of Santorini. The focus of ...

The long-debated timing of the Santorini (Thera) volcano eruption and its suggested link to Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose has taken a sharp turn. A new radiocarbon study led by researcher Hendrik J. Bruins ...

Earthquakes and imaged magmatic dike intrusion. Dots show machine-learning relocated earthquakes from 1 January to 28 February 2025 color-coded according to occurrence time (OTime). Orange patches ...