A coming major eruption?

I visited Santorini in 2018 (or something like that). I can understand your point. I’ve asked because, according to my observations, the tourist crowd from Asia is back to Switzerland after Corona break, so I was expecting 2024 to be rather good year in the European touristic business.

Funny that I visited Lefkada in 2007 or 2008 and I didn’t notice any damage. But I think we were at the east coast. And I didn’t know how it looked before.

Lefkada’s west coast is full of cliffs, so beaches like Pefkoulia, Myloi, and Eggremnoi were really changed. Pefkoulia especially used to be quite different. Also a main road that went from Pefkoulia all the way to Karya up in the mountain basically got decomissioned. East coast was OK.

Never mind a puny volcano or earthquake…

One for a Slammer-panic: :kissing_heart: :grin:

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Let it climb to 4%, then I´ll panic.
But then it´s a peewee asteroid, sure it will be a bad day for a city should it land but it isnt a continent killer. From it´s size it will make one hell of a bang when it breaks up in the atmosphere.

The article’s headline says 2.3% now. At that rate it won’t be long until 4%.

But there’s no need to panic:

Astronomers are still confident that the chances are likely to fall to zero in the coming weeks.

Bit more here:

At the moment I am listening to Graham Hancock‘ audio lok. „magicians of the gods“
His theory is that an advanced civilisation was wiped out by a comet or asteroid on the ice age’s icecap at the younger dryas.
Of course the theory is dissed by almost all historians, but with all the unexplained megalithic buildings arrow f the world that seem to be linked. I wonder.

They were built by aliens. Just ask Erich von Däniken.

What we see matters, what we don’t see matters too :wink:

The Sumerians started writing 5k years ago. Sea level was about -2m from today.

Some old sculptures have been found in the Middle East from 9 to 11k years ago. It always blows my mind to think that sea level was -40m compared to present times. If some people lived by the sea at the time, whatever remained was destroyed by surf, or covered by sediments. Also, land subsidence or plate tectonics can do a lot over 10k years and make things disappear when compounded with sea-level rise from ice melting.

Some remains have been found in places with clear water and relatively stable ground. This site is near Haifa in present day Israel. I’d like to dive there once:

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On Malta some of the so-called cart ruts lead into the sea, also in 1999 what appears to be a megalithic temple was discovered off the coast at St. Julian’s and recently the diving community was abuzz with the hint that another temple is laying underwater off the coast of Sliema.

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Or Ron Hubbard…

That is the problem, too many bullshit artists peddling wild ideas for any serious research to look into.
An ice age civilisation on the level of Egypt or Roman or Greek would be plausible and be the kernel of truth to explain a lot of the tales, myths and stories of history though.

Easy, easy. Let’s just say Sumerian level of cultural development in a coastal setting, but hundreds or thousands of years before the Sumerians.

Imagine the size of the Netherlands back then.

Don’t tell Trump, it will make him greedy, claiming parts of the sea. Ah yeah and Putin is also all keen on ancient country’s fontiers. Things are messy enough as they are just now.

Well why not? The people of 10, 20, 30 Thousand plus years ago were certainly as capable as we are today, given the limitations of the technology of the time they would have been able to solve problems of construction on the same way we would.
Now imagine a disaster would disrupt our global civilisation to a point where it could no longer function, or be totally wiped out, The result would be that over time the survivors and/of remote communities would talk about the old gods who had the all the knowledge of the world, who could fly, who could do miracles and could talk to one another at distances further than one can shout.
If you leave out the aliens and the magic and vibrating crystals yadda yadda, then I don’t think it too far a stretch of the imagination that a civilisation was destroyed in a series of great floods.

Slow down…the domestication of wild plants for food is estimated to be only 10k years old. Evidence of humans controlling fire span from 100k to 1M years ago. So, whatever is below the sea is probably remnants of humans who could handle fire, make some stone tools, maybe pottery. But still had not invented agriculture, or found out how to work with bronze.

Hence advanced alien civilizations :smiley:

Maybe… probably. But a few questions kind of poke holes in your assessment.
Agriculture has no set date but probably began between the Tigris and the Euphrates river, that much we know, around 11.000 years ago at the end of the youger drias. It began much earlier in the Hindus valley and probably even earlier that that in south east Asia and Africa.
In fact the plants and animals that we eat today were cultivated in the stone age.
If… a disaster wiped out a civilzation at the end of the ice age then I would expect agriculture to be one of the first things that mankind restarted.

Looks like the earthquake swarm could be due to volcanic activity afterall.
Magma is now forcing it´s way into the chamber at Santorin, probably not enough to cause an eruption but it could be that we will see the birth of a new volcanic island in the region where most of the quakes are centered.
Going to be very interesting in the next year or so.

Sooner or later this earth has vanished into history.