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Tom Mullen
This Mediterranean island was born from erupting volcanoes, the most violent in recent millennia—known as the Minoan eruption—having been in the year 1,613 BCE. Spewing ash and pumice decimated the then two-thousand-year-old settlement of Akrotiri—a city with multistory stone homes, as well as systems for water supply and sewage.
That event marked one of the earth’s largest volcanic eruptions in the past 10,000 years. It is estimated that within three days this volcano spewed out 14 cubic miles (60 cubic kilometers) of ash, rock and pumice. That’s almost triple the volume of all five Great Lakes in the U.S. The ferocious eruption darkened northern hemisphere skies for two weeks, and ushered in a two-year long winter. Read the full travel article here
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