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   AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:15 JST AI6YR Ben

   Hilarious example of "cognitive dissonance" in this LiveScience article

   LiveScience: Santorini earthquake swarm intensifies but likely won't trigger volcano

   ".... the earthquakes by Santorini are likely caused by a series of faults — or zones where two blocks of rock move or slip against each other. However, he noted that the earthquakes were "unusual."

   "The problem with this event is that we've just seen earthquake after earthquake after earthquake," Pyle said. "It's all underwater, and so it's really hard to anticipate what's going to happen next."..."

   https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/earthquakes/weve-just-seen-earthquake-after-earthquake-after-earthquake-santorini-earthquake-swarm-intensifies-but-likely-wont-trigger-volcano

   #earthquakes #volcanoes #santorini #kolumbo

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:10 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • Trojan Duck

     @todwest @Catawu TBD, but it's definitely connected down there somehow... the only question is if whatever shift is causing the earthquakes is just moving stuff around, or if something is going to pop up out of the seafloor (IMHO). I mean, one hopes it's just earthquakes of course, but I don't think you can rule out magma/volcanic activity (emphasizing I have zero background in this area, just my pattern matching brain saying "this looks a lot more like earthquakes at volcanoes than slippage")

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Anne Ominous (rustoleumlove@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:10 JST Anne Ominous

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     @ai6yr @todwest @Catawu

     “What we must realise is that the Santorini volcano produces very large explosions every 20,000 years,” Efthymios Lekkas, seismologist & head of the scientific monitoring committee for the Hellenic Volcanic Arc, said last week.

     “It’s been 3,000 years since the last explosion, so we have a very long time ahead of us before we face a big explosion.”

     LMAO.. apparently, volcanoes are big sticklers about staying on the right schedule

     https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/4/greeces-instagram-island-of-santorini-rattled-by-200-earthquakes

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     Trojan Duck (todwest@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:11 JST Trojan Duck

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     @ai6yr @Catawu Thanks. Sounds like we could be in for a show.

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:12 JST AI6YR Ben

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     @todwest @Catawu Anydros is part of a "half-graben" per the scientific paper I was able to find. This paper specifically reference Anydros as being connected to Kolumbo volcano and magma activity..

     "Bohnhoff et al. (2006) analyzed microseismic events that occurred between 2002 and 2004 in the Hellenic Volcanic Arc. The events clustered beneath Kolumbo, along the Santorini Amorgos Fault Zone and spread along a NE–SW trending axis crossing Anydros Island. The cluster beneath Kolumbo is interpreted to be linked to the accumulation of magma below the volcano."

     https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040195116000597#preview-section-abstract

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:13 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • Trojan Duck

     @todwest @Catawu I know nothing (all the seismologists are saying "the fault is just slipping") but seems to me--based entirely on watching earthquakes frequently--it's absolutely something magma driven or moving under the surface, versus a normal slip. Normal slips "slip" with a big jolt and then have lots of aftershocks.. and also tend to propagate out along a fault as the pressure is redistributed. This thing keeps on centering in the same area and is still increasing in magnitude (yesterday a lot of big quakes). Then again, the Mediterranean is not Southern California.

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     Trojan Duck (todwest@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:13 JST Trojan Duck

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     • Cat West

     @ai6yr @Catawu Yeah, I'm an amateur myself, but you're certainly correct that swarms like this very often lead to volcanism rather than a simple plate movement. It's also very close to the island of Anydros. Not very much written about this island. Does not appear to be of volcanic origin from the satellite pics.

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:14 JST AI6YR Ben

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     @Catawu LOL. Still rocking and rolling there. M4.7 earthquake just a short while ago.

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     Trojan Duck (todwest@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:14 JST Trojan Duck

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     @ai6yr @Catawu New seamount pushing upward, perhaps? Very close to other hotspots.

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:15 JST AI6YR Ben

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     ***My interpretation: "it's just plates moving, let's reassure the public, but we really have no friggin way of knowing what's actually going on down there.... This is confusing me, but I don't want to be accused of making people panic" 🤪

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     Cat West (catawu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:15:15 JST Cat West

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     @ai6yr This has all the hallmarks of the worst crisis/catastrophe movie I have seen since December. We all laughed at the stupidity… but the script was apparently based on, with no exaggeration, the exact political responses from corporate minded elected officials. The movie even looks like it was filmed in that area. The point is: If it’s going to kill a lot of people, they won’t be around to complain about it, so, net gain for stupidity and lack of concern for survival. Meanwhile, cash in!