[SunkenCiv]

Earthquake experts and officials from the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection and the fire service...

IOW, the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection should be the Ministry of Civil Protection, with the Climate Crisis hoaxters fired. :^) Thanks BenLurkin. Nice two-fer topic!

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[SunkenCiv]

The eruption that buried the town (modern site name is Akrotiri, can be viewed by tourists last I knew) was preceded some unknown number of years by a quake that damaged structures and apparently led to complete evacuation and abandonment of the island.

This is analogous to the precursor quake that damaged Pompeii more than a decade before the 79 AD eruption that buried it, although being on the mainland, repairs were begun and still ongoing when Vesuvius went kaboom.

Herodotus wrote quite a bit about the island, which in that time was called Calliste, and contrary to frequent claims, the eruption (so-called "super-eruption") that formed the caldera and the bay is prehistoric (at least 20K ago) and didn't destroy Minoan civilization. Neither was the island the "real" Atlantis, that claim was made in the 19th century and gets revived every so often, sometimes as if it's a new, original idea.

Literally the only eruption there that is documented in surviving ancient sources happened about 199 BC, which probably explains why Herodotus (who antedated that year) and Plato (who never wrote about the island at all, and lived even earlier than Herodotus) mention an eruption.