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Greek volcano reawakens

Potential eruption wouldn’t be anything like Santorini’s storied Bronze Age blowout

By Alexandra Witze

- More than 2 years ago

The Greek islands of Santorini, site of one of history’s most colossal volcanic eruptions, are rumbling again.

Precise measurements of the landscape at Santorini, Greece, using GPS stations (foreground) reveal that the volcano is slowly inflating, a possible precursor to an eruption. Georgia Institute of Technology

Since January 2011, earthquakes have shaken the landscape and the Santorini volcano’s surface has lifted by about 140 millimeters — possibly because magma is rising from the deep and filling an underground chamber, scientists report in an upcoming Geophysical Research Letters.