ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Multiple earthquakes are rattling Santorini, a volcanic island in Greece, prompting authorities to dispatch rescuers with tents, a sniffer dog and drones, and to shut schools on four islands.

Precautions were also ordered on several nearby Aegean Sea islands - all popular summer vacation destinations - after more than 200 undersea earthquakes were recorded in the area over the past three days.

Earthquakes are still rattling Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes as authorities bolster their emergency plans in case the hundreds of temblors over the past few days are a harbinger of a larger quake to come.

Hundreds of quakes have been registered in recent days in the Aegean Sea between Santorini and Amorgos, prompting authorities to shut schools and the islands of Ios, Amorgos and Anafi.

Hundreds more people were expected to leave Greece's Santorini island on Wednesday as tremors shook the popular summer tourist destination for a sixth day. About 6,000 people have left on ferries and planes in recent days as hundreds of small quakes were registered in the surounding sea,

A series of earthquakes on Santorini has prompted thousands of people to leave the Greek tourist island since early 2025. Against this backdrop, some social media users were sharing old, out-of-context images and wrongly linking them to the tremors on the island.

The Greek island of Santorini is now nearly deserted and the people who have not evacuated woke up to earthquakes on Wednesday. Those followed an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale that struck in the sea near the island of Amorgos the day before,

Thousands of people were leaving the Greek island of Santorini by sea and air for a third day on Tuesday, as an unprecedented series of earthquakes shook the top travel destination. Some 6,000 people have already left the island,