Santorini Eruption Much larger Than Originally Believed

University Rhode Island ^ | 8-23-2006 | Todd McLeish

[Anne of DC]

End of Atlantis?

That's what I was thinking.

It does make sense. If Pato or the ones who told him the story of Atlantis were off a few thousand years, then that would put the eruption on Santorini right in the time frame for the destruction of Atlantis.

It just makes sense.

If only the Greek government would permit an archeological research in the area. There may be lots to find underwater near Santorini.

[NukeMan]

What of the strength of Toba (~75,000 years ago)? I thought that was bigger still.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Sometimes God uses natural phenomena and features. Sometimes He doesn't. I think the Exodus was super special to Him and that much of the time, He used other than natural stuff.

I was taught that the miracles all have scientific explanations. The miracle wasn't the events themselves, but that they occurred at the exact right time to be useful. You're free to agree or disagree.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

There's also a theory that Mt. Toba, a really big volcano on Sumatra, erupted during the ice age, and the resulting "nuclear winter" killed off everyone, except for a few thousand Neanderthals. I don't know about that, but if Mt. Toba blows in our lifetime, it's safe to say that we'll never have to worry about global warming again!

Never mind Toba... I've read and seen a few items recently that there is a potential supervolcano under Yellowstone, just waiting to go.

[blam]

"What of the strength of Toba (~75,000 years ago)? I thought that was bigger still."

Toba was the last Super Volcano to blow it's top.

Late Pleostocene Population Bottleneck. . . (Toba)

[blam]

"I've read and seen a few items recently that there is a potential supervolcano under Yellowstone, just waiting to go."

It has been determined that the Yellowstone super volcano erupts about every 600,000 years. It has been 640,000 year since it last erupted. Ahem, prepare now.

[patton]

I do not think one can.

[blam]

"I do not think one can."

Yup, six years of a 'nuclear winter' when nothing will grow is hard to prepare for.

My plan is to move north and search for animals that have starved to death and were frozen stiff where they fell and then eat them. I will get real cold in a lot of places real fast.

[patton]

Good plan. Do you have a link to the fallout map for the yellowstone calderra? I saw it on one of your previous threads.

[blam]

" Do you have a link to the fallout map for the yellowstone calderra? I saw it on one of your previous threads."

No. It's lost on one of the earlier threads.

[twigs]

I think that either way (volcano or no), the events of the exodus was a supernatural event. The specific details do not to me make a difference in seeing God's in it. But I just don't see that the dates match. 1600 BC for the Santorini eruption is earlier than most dates I've seen for the exodus.

[Verloona Ti]

I read where the explosion is believed to have caused a tidal wave around 700 feet tall! That would cause flooding many, MANY miles inland throughout the Meditteranean and parts beyond . To put that in perspective, the St Louis arch is about 70 ft tall, so just imagine 10 arches one on top of the other, in the form of a giant wall of ocean water.....shudder!

[RightWhale]

Velokovsky said the Exodus was sponsored by the volcanic eruption. A lot changed for civilization right then.

[wildbill]

100,000 years ago? Are you sure? I heard they had archeological digs going on at the island and were discovering the ruins of life there a la Pompei.

[SunkenCiv]

Velokovsky said the Exodus was sponsored by the volcanic eruption. A lot changed for civilization right then.

No, he didn't, but he discussed (and dismissed) a 19th c work, "Mount Sinai a Volcano".

[SunkenCiv]

100,000 years ago? Are you sure? I heard they had archeological digs going on at the island and were discovering the ruins of life there a la Pompei.

The ruins of Akrotiri have been excavated on the island, but that hasn't much to do with the formation of the caldera, apart from showing that the caldera was already there when the town was built. :')

[SunkenCiv]

have you noticed an increased . . . something . . . in such programs on TV recently? They seem to be paying persistent attention to the volcano in Mexico

I had not seen that.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"To put that in perspective, the St Louis arch is about 70 ft tall, so just imagine 10 arches one on top of the other, in the form of a giant wall of ocean water.....shudder!"

Er, 10 Gateway Arches on top of one another would be 6,300 feet tall ! It's 630 feet, not 70.

[RightWhale]

Earth in Upheaval, Ages in Chaos, or the other one I forget the title right now goes into the volcano idea at length. Pillar of Smoke, plagues on Egypt, all that.

[SunkenCiv]

Last year I became a believer in the theory that a natural disaster in 535 A.D. caused the Dark Ages. For me the clincher came when I read a book on the Mayans that was too old for the authors to know anything about the theory, and they reported that the city of Tikal left NO historical records between the years 534 and 593. The most likely culprit for the disaster is a Southeast Asian volcano like Krakatoa or Tambora; any idea how much ash and rock it would have sent into the atmosphere?

That theory would be from David Keys' book. I don't have a whole lot of use for his eventual culprit, because of the worldwide distribution of the supposed darkness.

There's also a theory that Mt. Toba, a really big volcano on Sumatra, erupted during the ice age, and the resulting "nuclear winter" killed off everyone, except for a few thousand Neanderthals. I don't know about that, but if Mt. Toba blows in our lifetime, it's safe to say that we'll never have to worry about global warming again!

That's another popular one, but again, I don't have much use for alleged supereruptions, despite my catastrophist orientation. :')