Re: Tsunami food for thought

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

I'll again stand in the lab for the next 5 days, so I guess I can afford 
writing yet one more off-topic e-mail... :-]

> Bad as it was, this has't been the worst that the area has experienced 
> with it comes to a Tsunami. I've been waiting for some mention of what the 
> explosion of Krakatau did to the region in 1883, but it hasn't happened 
> yet...

Well, that's the other end of Sumatra, the one which got pretty much spared 
this time.

> This same sort of scenario is thought to have led to the end of the 
> Minonin civilization on Crete when the Santorini volcano exploded in 1,650 
> BCE.

Didn't the Minoans last several hundred years longer? -- Thera/Santorini did 
explode at that time, but it wasn't as huge an explosion as used to be 
thought. It was already a seawater-filled caldera before that time. I saw a 
documentary about this on TV some years ago.