Greece’s government declared a state of emergency on Santorini on Thursday after hundreds of undersea earthquakes shook the resort island for nearly a week. The ministry of civil protection’s announcement will provide authorities faster access to state resources.

It welcomes around 3 million visitors per year, but between January 26 and February 8, the Seismology Laboratory of the University of Athens has registered a staggering 12,800 earthquakes in the Santorini-Amorgos zone, the strongest of these was last night at a magnitude of 5.3.

Greek officials are warning those on the popular tourist island destination of Santorini to stay alert in the coming days due to increasing seismic activity which could mean a strong earthquake is possible.

Tuesday morning’s quakes included two magnitude 5.1 earthquakes centered in the Aegean Sea north of Santorini.

Thousands of locals and travelers have evacuated the Greek island of Santorini amidst a spike in seismic activity.

Santorini has been impacted by over 200 seismic tremors in the last 48 hours, with experts stating that nothing should be ruled out

Amid hundreds of minor earthquakes shaking Greece's island of Santorini, the island's mayor says the island is a safe destination.

Authorities declared a state of emergency on a second Greek island Wednesday as a series of earthquakes continued to rattle the south-eastern Aegean Sea region. The emergency measure announced on the island of Amorgos follows a similar decision for nearby Santorini on Feb.

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, the University of Athens’