Letusan Minoa: Perbedaan antara revisi

[[Berkas:Santorini LandsatASTER.jpg|jmpl|300px|ka|Citra satelit Thera 21 November 2000]]

'''Letusan Minoa''' di [[Santorini|Thera]], juga disebut '''letusan Thera''' atau '''letusan Santorini''', adalah [[gunung berapi|letusan gunung berapi]] ([[Volcanic Explosivity Index|VEI]] = of 6-7, [[Dense-Rock Equivalent|DRE]] = 60&nbsp;km³)<ref name=URI2006>{{cite web|url=http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/?id=3654|title=Santorini eruption much larger than originally believed|date=August 23, 2006|accessdate=2007-03-10}}</ref> yang diperkirakan terjadi pada pertengahan milenium kedua SM.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hardy DA|date=1989|title="Therea and the Aegean World III", Volume III—Chronology (Proceedings of the Third International Congress, Hardy DA, editor)|url=http://www.therafoundation.org/articles/chronololy/|accessdate=2008|03-16}}</ref> Letusan ini merupakan salah satu peristiwa gunung berapi terbesar didalam Bumi.<refsejarah name="Oppenheimer2003">{{cite journal|last=Oppenheimer|first=Clive|title=Climatic, environmental and human consequences of the largest known historic eruption: Tambora volcano (Indonesia) 1815|journal=Progress in Physical Geography|volume=27|issue=2|date=2003|pages=230–259|doi=10manusia.1191/0309133303pp379ra}}</ref><ref name="McCoy2002">{{cite conference|author=McCoy, FW, & Dunn, SE|title=Modelling the Climatic Effects of the LBA Eruption of Thera: New Calculations of Tephra Volumes May Suggest a Significantly Larger Eruption than Previously Reported|booktitle=Chapman Conference on Volcanism and the Earth's Atmosphere|url=http://www.agu.org/meetings/cc02babstracts/McCoy.pdf|publisher=American Geographical Union|date=2002|location=Thera, Greece|accessdate=29 Mei 2007}}</ref> Letusan ini menghancurkan pulau Thera, termasuk [[peradaban Minoa]] dan [[Akrotiri (Santorini)|Akrotiri]] dan juga komunitas dan wilayah agrikultur disekitar pulau dan pantai [[Kreta]]. Letusan ini merupakan salah satu penyebab runtuhnya peradaban Minoa.