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.

More Greek islands closed schools Tuesday as hundreds of earthquakes ratted the Aegean Sea, while a handful of hardy tourists enjoyed having Santorini’s stunning views to themselves

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,