Tidal Waves or Tsunamis in Ancient Literature

[Robert Vermaat]

Hi Jim,

Marshland is usually not becoming that much dryer when a tsunami pulls the water out sea. Does the eastern Mediterranean have much of a tidal zone?

So maybe there was no tsunami at all?

It doesn't matter about tidal zones. Tsunamis have nothing to do with tides, they're the result of a massive displacement by undersea earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides (and meteorites).

Thanks for the lecture, but I know.. I probably see the same documenteries as you do

The question was about the route of a mass of people running from a mad bad king - you just dont take a route across a marsh or a tidal zone. :wink: And if they stayed clear of either, any tsunami would not have cleared a dry path for them. So either you go for the tsunami but you end up with an imposssible route, or you go for the 'acceptable rout'but then the tsunami does not affect anyone.

The marsh in question extended into the Mediterranean (it's north of the Red Sea on the other side of the land mass) and the water came directly from the Med, the marsh populated with reeds

and the time estimated (scientifically) for the water to return to the marsh is twenty minutes, the scale of the tsunami and drawback being so great after the eruption.

Even with the 'water away from the marsh', it's still a vast stretch of sogging mud. No Moses with abit of a brain would lead his people through thát!