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A Mega-Tsunami Could Strike Mediterranean Anytime!

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Don't think that tsunamis are something connected only to the Indo-Pacific areas and that summering on the Mediterranean shores is safe. A mega-tsunami devastated eastern Mediterranean in 365 A.D. And this could repeat. A new research published in "Nature Geoscience" has detected the geological fault off the coast of the Crete Island (Greece) that could have slipped, causing the mega earthquake responsible for the ancient tsunami. The team also measured that megaearthquakes (over the ma...

Posted originally: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:32:00 GMT

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