{"id":29890,"date":"2025-02-06T02:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29890"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:11:22","slug":"santorini-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/santorini-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Santorini Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Santorini Island Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Thousands of residents have fled the island of Santorini after a swarm of earthquakes shook the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<h2>About Santorini Island<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Santorini, or <strong>Thera<\/strong>, as it is also known, is a <strong>volcanic crater island<\/strong> that is located in the southern part of the <strong>Aegean Sea in southeastern Greece.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the southernmost island in the <strong>Cyclades island group.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is located approximately 128 nautical miles southeast of the Greek mainland and about 63 nautical miles north of Crete, the largest Greek island.<\/li>\n<li>Santorini is the <strong>remaining portion of an exploded volcano<\/strong> and forms the most active volcanic center of the South Aegean Volcanic Arc.<\/li>\n<li>Santorini\u2019s volcano is one of the <strong>few active volcanoes on Greek and European<\/strong> land.<\/li>\n<li>It is well known for its <strong>sea-filled volcanic caldera<\/strong> that is <strong>surrounded by high colorful cliffs<\/strong> on its three sides.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known for its <strong>pristine whitewashed houses <\/strong>spread across jagged cliffs, astonishing <strong>blue waters,<\/strong> dramatic views, fabulous sunsets, and the ancient settlement of Thira.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Santorini Island FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is a volcanic crater island?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. A volcanic crater island is an island that has formed due to volcanic activity, typically from a volcanic crater or caldera that has either erupted and then filled with water or remained elevated above sea level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is a caldera?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. A caldera is a large, bowl-shaped depression that forms when a volcano collapses after a major eruption.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which countries border the Aegean Sea?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Aegean Sea is bordered by Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/thousands-flee-santorini-as-dozens-of-earthquakes-rattle-greeces-instagram-island-7636828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santorini Island is a volcanic crater island that is located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea in southeastern Greece. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}