There has yet to be even a decent earth tremor but this area has a significant history of seismic instability. The first town in the Katakolon area was Pheia and you can see the ruins underwater as it is now five meters under the bay of Agios Andrea. (Wiki: Pheia)
The Wiki informs that Pheia was destroyed in the 4th Century but it doesn't say what did it. That an earthquake took place seems obvious but I read further to confirm it. (Olympia’s Harbour Site Pheia (Elis, Western Peloponnese, Greece) Destroyed by Tsunami Impact)
It seems there is some debate as to when the event actually took place, whether the 4th or the 7th Century but it's clear there was a major earthquake. The latter reference above is fairly dense reading but within it is revealed there was an accompanying tsunami that could have been up to twenty meters and went far inland.
The Mediterranean Sea as a whole came into existence due to what may have been one of the greatest floods of all time as the area was nothing but a sandy basin until whatever plugged it in the Straights of Gibraltar opened. (World News Australia: Dramatic flood filled Mediterranean Sea)
According to that research, the Mediterranean Sea was filled in two years or possibly as little as two months. While it's tempting to think this was the Great Flood in Biblical history, it took place about 5.3 million years ago so there is no chance human eyes could have seen it. Nevertheless, everything in the Bible has some precedent from actual history, regardless of how much you may believe it may have been distorted, so the interested student is invited to pursue the idea of racial memory, etc. That modern Man was not yet in existence does not eliminate proto-hominids (i.e. our genetic forebears).
What's interesting to me about the flood is that it may have traveled at up to three hundred kilometers per hour!
Further reading in the Wiki: Messinian Salinity Crisis reveals a cycle of drying the Mediterranean basin and refilling it with the last event as reported in the previous reference but possibly 5.9 million years ago. (Additional in Wired: Mediterranean Sea Saved by Monumental Flood)
The really fascinating part of this, to me, is the height of the wave as the flood progressed and here's a reference that claims it may have been a mile high. (NASCA: The Mediterranean Disaster Mystery)
The musical connection in all this is an interview with Glenn Danzig from the band "Danzig" and I'm not going to link to that pompous piece of crap as part of it revealed his puerile thoughts on Jesus and Hitler. He said he got into music because he hates people but the only question to me from that is, based on that hatred, why didn't he do what all others of that ilk do: become a serial killer or go into politics.
Nevertheless, let's hear "Mother" one time as the Mediterranean area was the Mother to civilisation. Make of it what you will:
The Wiki informs that Pheia was destroyed in the 4th Century but it doesn't say what did it. That an earthquake took place seems obvious but I read further to confirm it. (Olympia’s Harbour Site Pheia (Elis, Western Peloponnese, Greece) Destroyed by Tsunami Impact)
It seems there is some debate as to when the event actually took place, whether the 4th or the 7th Century but it's clear there was a major earthquake. The latter reference above is fairly dense reading but within it is revealed there was an accompanying tsunami that could have been up to twenty meters and went far inland.
The Mediterranean Sea as a whole came into existence due to what may have been one of the greatest floods of all time as the area was nothing but a sandy basin until whatever plugged it in the Straights of Gibraltar opened. (World News Australia: Dramatic flood filled Mediterranean Sea)
According to that research, the Mediterranean Sea was filled in two years or possibly as little as two months. While it's tempting to think this was the Great Flood in Biblical history, it took place about 5.3 million years ago so there is no chance human eyes could have seen it. Nevertheless, everything in the Bible has some precedent from actual history, regardless of how much you may believe it may have been distorted, so the interested student is invited to pursue the idea of racial memory, etc. That modern Man was not yet in existence does not eliminate proto-hominids (i.e. our genetic forebears).
What's interesting to me about the flood is that it may have traveled at up to three hundred kilometers per hour!
Further reading in the Wiki: Messinian Salinity Crisis reveals a cycle of drying the Mediterranean basin and refilling it with the last event as reported in the previous reference but possibly 5.9 million years ago. (Additional in Wired: Mediterranean Sea Saved by Monumental Flood)
The really fascinating part of this, to me, is the height of the wave as the flood progressed and here's a reference that claims it may have been a mile high. (NASCA: The Mediterranean Disaster Mystery)
The musical connection in all this is an interview with Glenn Danzig from the band "Danzig" and I'm not going to link to that pompous piece of crap as part of it revealed his puerile thoughts on Jesus and Hitler. He said he got into music because he hates people but the only question to me from that is, based on that hatred, why didn't he do what all others of that ilk do: become a serial killer or go into politics.
Nevertheless, let's hear "Mother" one time as the Mediterranean area was the Mother to civilisation. Make of it what you will:
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