landslides in Greece

Landslides in Greece occur for many different reasons. One reason being earthquakes. When the plates shift this causes rocks to break and create landslides. The eastern part of the country are composed of geological formations and tangential movements. Intense folding and and fracturing result in alpine formations. Not only do these natural formation play a major role in landslides, urbanization and development are also a crucial contributing facto to these natural disasters. In a 2 and a half year time span there has been over 250 land slides.

Since 1950 to current day, landslides have been recorded on the relational database management system. Studies have been done to predict future landslides. According to Geosciences "The prediction ability was found to be 75.2% indicating an acceptable susceptibility map obtained from the GIS-based bivariate statistical model". This helps with future preparedness for all the islands. 

 

Weather can also be a huge contributing factor to landslides. Though this can cause large landslides its much easier to be prepared for this type of event.

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www.mdpi.com/journal/geosciences
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-28680-2_37#page-1
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013795200000430d

Greece Volcanoes

Greece is a hot spot for volcanic activity. The country sits right along the "Aegean Volcanic Arc" which is caused by the subduction of the African under Eurasian plate is what caused these volcanoes to form. Many of the most significant volcanoes in Greeks history have gone extinct. However there still are are six different volcanoes: Sousaki, Methana, Milos, Nisyros, Kolumbo and the biggest of then all, Santorini. 

Santorini is seen is the most famous volcano in Greece, due to the fact is such a tourist destination. Santorini is a large group of volcanoes located in the Aegean Sean just south of the Cyclades. As Volcano Discovery puts it "It is a very complex stratovolcano dominated by a large, sea-flooded caldera created by several large explosive eruptions." This also has the largest crater in the world, height of 300m and a diameter of 11km. However, this crater has sunken and has filled with sea water. Santorini was Greece's latest explosion in 1950. in 1613 BC The Minoan Eruption occurred which was the largest in Greece's history, though it was on of the most studied it still remains to be one of the most mysterious irruptions to date.  This may be because the fact that it occurred so long ago. According to Greek Island Travel "Santorini has been active several times in more recent times with many minor and medium-sized eruptions that created the islets of Nea and Palea Kameni inside the caldera. "As of current time Santorini is considered to be dormant. 

Recently, sea-floor sensors were placed at the bottom of the ocean to watch volcanic activity. They were strategically placed around the island and at the middle of the Santorini crater. After placing these here there has been a international team of scientists to watch over the island for safety of the local villagers and travelers. According to Greek Island Travel "The 24-member research team is also using two submersibles for deep-sea dives in order to gather detailed information on the structure of the Santorini caldera." 

They have even created volcano hiking tours for those ambitious enough to explore some of the worlds larges volcanoes. 

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/greece.html

http://www.volcanolive.com/greece.html

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/santorini.html

http://www.greeka.com/greece-holiday/nature/volcanoes/

http://www.greek-islands-travel.co.uk/cyclades/santorini/volcano-watch-on-santorini.html

http://inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com/2011/11/its-all-greek-to-me.html