Zeus' hollow thunder boomed, awful to hear. The horses lifted
heads towards the sky And pricked their ears; while strange fear
fell on us, Whence came the voice. To the sea-beaten shore We
looked, and saw a monstrous wave that soared Into the sky, so
lofty that my eyes Were robbed of seeing the Scironian cliffs.
It hid the isthmus and Asclepius' rock. Then seething up and
bubbling all about With foaming flood and breath from the deep
sea, Shoreward it came to where the chariot stood. Euripides,
The Hippolytus 1 gallon of gasoline = 1.17e8 joules 1 kiloton =
4.184e12 joules A peacefull Aegean civilization with a history
of 1500 years (since c. 3000 BC), then a gigantic volcanic
eruption in around 1640 +- 12 years BC destroyed the island
Thera/Santorini. It was the largest known eruption in the last
10000 years on Earth, a 600 megatons atomic bomb explosion
equivalent i.e. around 50000 Hiroshima bombs or 24 Mount St.
Helens. A gigantic tidal wave, a catastrophic tsunami, reached
the island of Crete. Probably th