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Zeus' hollow thunder boomed, awful to hear. The horses lifted heads towards the sky And pricked their ears; while strange fear fell on us, Whence came the voice. To the sea-beaten shore We looked, and saw a monstrous wave that soared Into the sky, so lofty that my eyes Were robbed of seeing the Scironian cliffs. It hid the isthmus and Asclepius' rock. Then seething up and bubbling all about With foaming flood and breath from the deep sea, Shoreward it came to where the chariot stood. Euripides, The Hippolytus 1 gallon of gasoline = 1.17e8 joules 1 kiloton = 4.184e12 joules Bob Johnstone, Who killed the Minoans, New Scientist 21 June 1997, p. 36-39
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