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Background: GREEK GEOLOGISTS ARE TRYING TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF A HUGE TIDAL WAVE WHICH SWEPT ACROSS THE GULF OF PATRAS AND THE GULF OF CORINTH ON THURSDAY NIGHT, SPREADING HAVOC ALONG THE COAST.

EYE WITNESSES SAID THAT A SUBTERRANEAN RUMBLE WAS HEARD BEFORE THE WAVE - FROM 50 TO 60 FEET HIGH - STRUCK AND SWEPT UP TO ONE THOUSAND FEET INLAND.

WITHIN TEN MINUTES THE WATERS RETURNED TO NORMAL BUT EH TIDAL WAVE LEFT BEHIND WRECKED HOMES AND DROWNED HUNDREDS OF COWS, SHEEP, AND GOATS.ONE MAN LOST FIVE HUNDRED CHICKENS.

VILLAGERS ABANDONED THEIR HOMES AND SPENT THE NIGHT IN MOUNTAIN VILLAGES NEARBY.EIGHT PEOPLE WERE INJURED, BUT THERE ARE NO REPORTS OF DEATHS.HOWEVER, MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO EVACUATED THE AREA, HAVE SINCE REFUSED TO RETURN BECAUSE THEY FEAR THE DANGER OF ANOTHER SIMILAR WAVE.

GEOLOGISTS, WHO HAVE MADE INITIAL INQUIRIES, BELIEVE THAT THE WAVE WAS THE RESULT OF A SUBTERRANEAN QUAKE.