The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE. [2][3] It destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri, as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and the coast of Crete with subsequent earthquakes and paleotsunamis. [4] .

This is a presentation of the GIS mapping evidence that conclusively demonstrates the impossibility of a wide spread destruction of Minoan Crete by any tsunamis generated by the great eruption of the Theran (Santorini) marine volcano.

2016年11月9日 · New research finds ash and lava from the Santorini volcano in the Aegean Sea spawned the tsunami that struck the island of Crete, the center of Minoan culture.

2022年1月5日 · The giant waves were triggered by the eruption of the volcano Thera on the island of Santorini, hundreds of kilometers away—a cataclysm that toppled the Minoan civilization and shook the rest...

2021年7月29日 · A geomorphological survey immediately west of the Minoan town of Malia (Crete) shows that a tsunami resulting from the Bronze Age Santorini eruption reached the outskirts of the Palatial center.

2023年9月7日 · Using newly acquired seismic profiles alongside precise bathymetric information, Karstens and his team examined bedforms ringing Santorini’s caldera, some reaching distances of up to 25...

2007年4月20日 · Recent scientific work has established that the Santorini eruption was up to 10 times more powerful than the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. It caused massive climatic disruption and the blast was...

2023年7月14日 · In a paper published in late 2021 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers presented evidence of a destructive tsunami that followed the eruption...