What happened to the giant volcano thought to have destroyed Atlantis? The answer may be the island of Santorini... all of it. From: SECRETS: Hunt for Atlantis bit.ly/1ODL5mc
I remember going there two years ago and seeing this. It’s incredible that they still have an active volcano right next to them. Though to be honest it’s more likely that they get and earthquakes that ruins them because of all of the building built on the side of their mountains
Well, yes the bay is a crater. However, after the Minoan eruption a lot of the centre of what now is the bay, collapsed into the partially emptied magma chamber. So the entire bay is not purely a crater, but a 'sinkhole' as well. Hard to determine the actual crater when most debris just sank beneath the waves.
I assume that tiny little island will eventually grow up (multiple small mountain-building eruptions later) to be a large volcanic mountain - again. Mt. St. Helens in Washington is probably going through the beginnings of that process right now.
How do they really know if it won't erupt soon. I saw how fast Saint Helens erupted when I lived in Spokane, WA. How do we know when Mt. Rainier will erupt let alone, God forbid, Yellowstone.
id imagine it has something to do with calculating the size of the volcano or estimating at least, and seeing how much pressure would be needed to erupt. plus looking at how often it has erupted in the past that we are aware of and looking at the time between eruptions. id imagine the soil and rock in surrounding area would give clues as to past erruptions.
@@J-Vasa this volcano is right on one of the most active seismic regions. Just a mix of the volcan's magma with spill from earth's mantel and you'll have there a bombastic cocktail. It's what happened in one of most active volcanoes in Indonesia.
Thats the neat part, they dont! There are lots of detectors though in Santorini and in all of Greece but they have a good enough detection system down there. But there is some limit to the technology so no absolute guarantee. But today you "usually" detect magma intrusion in the form of many small earthquakes
I wonder if sea next to Thera is warm enough to swim in winter, the experience of walking on Thera volcano shall be accepted as like "must have dress", I also strongly recommend to buy volcano stone necklace and homemade wine as souvenoirs. The crab meat was the best that I've ever tasted, viva Greece ;)
{ أولم تكونوا أقسمتم من قبل ما لكم من زوال و سكنتم في مساكن الذين ظلموا أنفسهم و تبين لكم كيف فعلنا بهم و ضربنا لكم الأمثال و قد مكروا مكرهم و عند الله مكرهم و إن كان مكرهم لتزول منه الجبال فلا تحسبن الله مخلف وعده رسله إن الله عزيز ذو انتقام } ابراهيم 47
"Could this be behind the mythical inspiration of Atlantis?" - unlikely. This volcano erupted (estimate 1646 BC) around the time of the Bronze age collapse, whereas Atlantis is probably the legend of the pre-flood civilization that existed prior to 2348 BC
One of the theories is that Plato changed the dates and exact events in his story to make it more like an allegory for the way power corrupts etc? So some believe the story he wrote was just inspired by the events at Thera and Minoan Crete, but not like "this is exactly what happened and when it happened" - he made it more spectacular. However the idea that his story is based on an ancient pre-flood civilisation is also fascinating, I wish we could know for certain!! :)
@@joycevaldes4548 - I think most estimate the flood to have been 10-15,000 years ago? (Somewhere in that time frame). From what I recall Plato said "9,000 years before the time of -insert name of the Egyptian priest, I've forgotten it!" so that was around 9000 years ago at the time Plato wrote it. That time roughly coincides with events such as the mass death of megafauna on the North American continent as well as other significant hints at something huge happening around that time (which wiped out the civilisation some believe the Atlantis myth is based on!) :)
Plato gave the former location of Atlantis as the middle of the Atlantic Ocean; Santorini is inside the Mediterranean. Atlantis sunk, Santorini didn't. Santorini is also not nearly old enough. So it's pretty clear that conventional science, even when it entertains the idea of the existence of Atlantis, is not willing to give Plato's account any credence whatsoever. If one condescends to and derides such a great figure, then one's failure to solve this mystery is all but assured.
