"Recent scientific work has established that the Santorini eruption was up to 10 times more powerful than the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883."
I've read recently that some believe Santorini may have been close to super-volcano status.
I just completed reading the 1965 book Krakatoa and many first hand accounts...It was no picnic either.
Very true, Krakatoa, the largest explosion in recorded history, was probably no picnic. The claim that the 1645 BC Santorini eruption/explosion was bigger than Krakatoa sent me to Google which turned up a site which you may find interesting: Santorini
This whole site (not just the linked page) has lots of pictures and good stuff on Santorini and volcanoes in general.
> I’ve read recently that some believe Santorini may have been close to super-volcano status.
> I just completed reading the 1965 book Krakatoa and many first hand accounts...It was no picnic either.
Nor the Taupo explosion in NZ. There is one theory running around that New Zealand was, up until the Taupo explosion, settled by Phoenecians. The archaeologist is a neighbor of mine, and his findings are, on the surface, possible.