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Thousands of residents and visitors have left the island, while schools on Santorini and nearby islands have been for the week.

Extra doctors and paramedics have been sent to Santorini's hospital, while six disaster medicine teams are on standby as reinforcements. Medical staff practiced an evacuation drill Tuesday, running out of the building while wheeling stretchers with people posing as patients.

69制片厂制作传媒淭he preparation of our health facilities for natural disasters such as earthquakes is of vital importance,69制片厂制作传媒� Deputy Health Minister Marios Themistokleous said while visiting the hospital.

the earthquake swarm occurring between the islands of Santorini and Amorgos, and the two volcanoes in the area. They say it69制片厂制作传媒檚 unclear whether the dozens of quakes each day 69制片厂制作传媒� ranging from magnitude 3 to roughly 5 or just above 69制片厂制作传媒� are a precursor to a significantly larger, main earthquake or will continue with frequent lower magnitude quakes for several weeks or months.

Overall, about 12,000 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 1 have been registered since Jan. 26, with 109 occurring on Monday alone, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens' crisis management committee said in a statement Tuesday.

Thirteen of Monday's quakes registered magnitudes greater than 4, while several more with similar magnitudes struck on Tuesday. The largest so far, with a magnitude 5.2, struck on Monday night and was followed about two hours later by another with magnitude 5.

69制片厂制作传媒淭he possibility of a main earthquake following cannot be ruled out,69制片厂制作传媒� the statement said.

Scientists were deploying more surveying equipment in the area Tuesday to monitor the situation, the University of Athens said, while seismologists and volcanologists were to meet with government officials Tuesday evening as part of regular discussions of the situation.

Although Greece lies in a highly and earthquakes are frequent, it is very rare for any part of the country to experience such an intense barrage of earthquakes for such an extended period of time.

Santorini took its present crescent shape following a massive volcanic eruption in antiquity 69制片厂制作传媒� one of the largest known eruptions in human history. Now, millions of visitors each year see its dramatic scenery of whitewashed houses and blue-domed churches clinging to the rim of the caldera, the flooded crater left behind by a volcano that erupted and then collapsed.