Amorgos: Emergency declared on second Greek island as string of earthquakes persists - A series of earthquakes continues 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 February 7 after thousands of unusual tremors were registered in an undersea area

Authorities have declared a state of emergency on a second Greek island as a series of earthquakes continued to rattle the south-eastern Aegean Sea region

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’

Earlier this month the UK Foreign Office issued travel advice for British tourists in the area - with thousands of earthquakes reported in recent weeks

The latest of hundreds of earthquakes have rattled the volcanic Greek island of Santorini after the strongest one so far with magnitude 5.3