The word dormant has appeared in 277 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 3 in “Greece Prepares for Quake as Hundreds of Tremors Shake Islands” by Niki Kitsantonis:
The measures were precautionary, Greece’s civil protection minister, Vassilis Kikilias, said on Sunday, but he urged citizens to “strictly follow safety recommendations to minimize risk.”
The extent of that risk was unclear, with some experts playing down the potential for a major earthquake and stressing that the seismic activity was not linked to a dormant volcano on Santorini.
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