Lekkas conducts on-site inspection with HSGME team at Santorini Caldera cable car area

An autopsy in the Caldera at the height of the cable car was carried out by the president of the Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization and Professor of Dynamic Tectonic Applied Geology & Disaster Management at the University of Athens Efthimios Lekkas, together with a scientific team of the Hellenic Survey of Geology & Mineral Exploration (HSGME).

As Lekkas said, there is a risk of landslides in the cable car; he stressed that the relevant study will be completed at the end of February, and the works will start immediately afterwards.

“We have to take into account that the risk here is high and the exposure is high because we have 1,500,000 tourists moving through the cable car alone and, of course, so many more from the path to the south,” he said.

HSGME geologist Dimitris Galanakis said they are going to study landslide phenomena, as well as the danger at the old port and along the Caldera.

Earlier, Lekkas referred to the three scenarios that exist regarding the seismic sequence in the sea area between Santorini and Amorgos.

The first version, as he stressed, is as time goes by so to dilute the earthquakes, the frequency and the average magnitude essentially decreases. “This is one version, which is what we are experiencing now with the fluctuations that we said,” he said. The second version, he noted, is that a larger earthquake becomes a more rapid dampening of seismic activity.
And the third scenario, he said, is that there could be an earthquake on the order of 6 degrees.

“I believe that the first and the second scenarios have the overwhelming percentage of more than 95%, and we are working on them,” he stressed.

Lekkas also flew with the team by helicopter to Anydros island.

source:amna.gr