Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced thousands of earthquakes this month while researchers have revealed a new magma chamber growing underneath the Kolumbo submarine volcano.

In the span of 10 days, nearly 13,000 tremors of varying intensity were recorded on the Greek island of Santorini. The situation is causing concern, not only among the Greeks. Turkey, neighboring across the sea,

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two weeks near Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini.