Factoid of the day

Did an ancient Native American legend recount the earthquake and tsunami of 1700?

headsup Via Boing Boing

actually, when reading the Psalms, especially psalm 18, it makes one wonder if the poet is describing volcanic eruption (complete with dark clouds, the often accompanying lightning and molten rocks coming down), earthquakes and even tsunamis:

¹³The Lord also thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered His voice, amid hailstones and coals of fire.

¹⁴And He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He flashed forth lightnings and put them to rout.

¹⁵Then the beds of the sea appeared and the foundations of the world were laid bare at Your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

¹⁶He reached from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.

I could see a poet seeing God in the storm, but a person usually wouldn't mix the volcanic images with an image of a "beds of the sea appeared" followed by rescue from a flood. So where did the poet get that imagery?

alas, it's hard for a layperson to discern the truth, with all the fake Biblical archeology claims out there, but this geological report might make one wonder: LINK
among other facts, it says there is a tsunami along the Israeli coast about every 150 years...