Greece Earthquakes and Seismicity: Week 3

Due to the tectonic plate that Greece has its super common to earthquakes, Greece is super common with earthquakes because it tends to be one of the most active countries. Earthquakes although they are quite mild are so common that an earthquake took place today and it was 2.3 earthquake near the Aegean Sea. There was also another one that located only 2 miles from Aliartos, Greece that was a 4.1 earthquake. I did some research and also found out that on October 30th, 2020 (not too long ago) had a super strong earthquake that was 7.0 killing at least 80 individuals. Due to the placement of Greece people refer to it as a "box" due to the volcanos that are scattered which would make it difficult to find shelter, earthquakes have a strong potential due to the volcanoes that are still active and even if tend to be monitored by scientists the Nysrios Volcano is still likely to erupt because of how common volcanoes are. Most earthquakes that tend to strike Greece have epicenters which are under the sea, these typically don't have much of an effect on the islands they still can shake but won't cause severe damage to the islands. I thought this was pretty cool but doing some research I found out that the ancient greeks even named/attributed the earthquakes to the God of Sea because of how common they were underwater. 

Some historical earthquakes that occurred in Greece take place from a long time ago. So long that I'm referring to The Crete Earthquake of 365. This earthquake left a history mark because it even changed the topography of Crete itself to the point where debris can still be seen on a beach called Matala, Crete. Some other super historical earthquakes that took place were back in 1953 and 1999. As I mentioned earlier a lot of the earthquakes that occur tend to happen due to the volcanoes located in and near Greece, a volcano exploded causing debris and dust turning the island into a pale crescent. The Eruption of Thira on Santorini caused a tsunami and earthquake all at the same time. Greece is the most seismically active region in Europe and is ranked high sixth position on the global scale; Tsapanos and Burton, 1991. The Hence reliable seismic hazard assessments tend to be important on  sustaining the economical developments of Greece, the common objective of all the studies and modeling efforts are used to obtain long term probabilities that occur of all the seismic events. 

References: 

https://www.tripsavvy.com/earthquakes-in-greece-1526228 

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-6815-7_17