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Todd Frye
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Initially Posted - 02/25/2004 :  13:46:41  Show Profile
Just heard about an earthquake out in the Mediterranean. 6.5 or so. Is this common to that area? I'm assuming that a fault shift along the sea bottom would create some surface disturbance or even a tidal wave or rogue waves. Does anybody know if this type of natural disaster could affect water traffic/safety adversely? My ultimate sailing adventure includes sailing in the Greek Islands and something like this could rain on my parade if unprepared. Thank you. Todd Frye
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Response Posted - 02/25/2004 :  14:49:19  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Todd Frye</i>
<br />Just heard about an earthquake out in the Mediterranean. 6.5 or so. Is this common to that area?...Does anybody know if this type of natural disaster could affect water traffic/safety adversely? My ultimate sailing adventure includes sailing in the Greek Islands and something like this could rain on my parade if unprepared...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

It rained on the parades of ancient sailors when earthquakes brought down both The Colossus of Rhodes

and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.


Hopefully, the earthquake won't be so bad this time!


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Oscar
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Response Posted - 02/25/2004 :  21:06:04  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
I hate when that happens......

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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 02/26/2004 :  09:55:28  Show Profile
I thought it was the explosion of [url="http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/europe_west_asia/santorini.html"]Santorini[/url] that did all that damage.

Of course, that probably doesn't happen very often, either.
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Raskal
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Response Posted - 02/26/2004 :  18:47:25  Show Profile
Homer warned of a lot of special problems in that region:
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">"At sea once more we had to pass the Sirens, whose sweet singing lures sailors to their doom...Next came Charybdis, who swallows the sea in a whirlpool, then spits it up again...Avoiding this we skirted the cliff where Scylla exacts her toll. Each of her six slavering maws grabbed a sailor and wolfed him down." <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

British Geologists determined recently that the largest of the Canary Islands fronting the Western Med is split and will eventually shed a large chunk. If the chunk falls Eastward the tidal wave will wipe out the coastal Mediterranean cities. If if falls Westward, the most probable direction, it will wipe out Florida's coastal cities. When? Any day now. Plan accordingly, but don't stay up too many nights worrying about it...

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ppetracca
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Response Posted - 02/28/2004 :  13:13:30  Show Profile
I can't speak for Homer or any other ancients, but with over 2 years in the Med courtesy of Uncle Sam, I never saw or heard of any such problems. I was everywhere from Gibraltar to Israel. I would have to think such occurences are rare and isolated. With the number or charter companies now offering boats in the Med, I would not let it deter me from going back.

For what it's worth, that's my take on it.
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