>> 12 January 2023
This may or may not be connected to the recent strong tremors in Santorini.
What I want to know is who named that thing "Kolumbo". That's not a Greek name. We got so much prime material for Greek-mythology inspired names of volcanoes. e.g. "Charybdis" would fit right in.
It isn’t related.
Explanation from geology professor Sean Willsey [1] — my go to source for anything geology related!
Shawn, my mistake!
[^1]: https://www.emsc-csem.org/Files/event/1765158/20250213b-sant...
I think he replies to a comment where he says “lack of significant ground deformation”. He also mention the natural up/down movement of normal faults being a cause of ground deformation.
I’m sure if there’s new information that he’ll do a follow up. I’ve followed his channel for a while now — I’m not a geologist or geophysicist either — but I find his knowledge and careful and thoughtful analysis to be exceptional.
This source it was people in Crete who named it. Ottomans conquered most of Crete in 1645 but Candia held till 1669 so it was probably the people in Candia who named it thus.
Koloumpo (Greek: Κολούμπο) But the word "Kolumbo" is used 11 times in the article about "Kolumpo"
This is just you not knowing that Κολούμπο is "Kolumbo". There's no discrepancy to explain; they are the same thing and "Kolumpo" would be an error.
It's still true that Columbo isn't a Greek name. But there's nothing unusual about its Greek spelling; there's no other way to spell "b" in modern Greek than "μπ".
Did you mean "mb"?
Because surely "β" can be used for b, like in our friend κυβερνήτης (kubernetes)
Note also that the normal transcription of ancient Greek κυβερνήτης would be cybernetes (see: "cybernetics"), not kubernetes.