Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini after hundreds of undersea earthquakes shook the resort island for nearly a week.

Dozens of families continue to search for their loved ones and at least 30 of the missing are children. Emir's aunt Nursen Kisa arrived at the collapsed building in Antakya an hour after the earthquake and waited beside the debris for over two weeks while search and rescue operations continued.

For Turkey, the second anniversary of the devastating earthquakes that struck swathes of the south of the country and parts of Syria on 6 February 2023 was a realisation that for so many moving on from either the second or fourth phases of the five stages of grief (denial,

Our chest, our front, our back, our lips – it’s forbidden for anyone to come and touch those parts of our bodies – no one has that right,” says Alican Mutlu, a youth worker with the Turkish Red Crescent,

A state of emergency has been declared in Santorini after the strongest earthquake in days rocked the island. The post What travelers should know about the Santorini earthquake situation appeared first on The Manual.

How long will the state of emergency last? It’s very difficult to predict how long the earthquakes will last and, as a result, when the state of emergency will come to an end. But authorities have said activity could go on for weeks.