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15th October 2015 
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However, they think it might be 
linked to cryovolcanism. A cryovol- 
cano is not like the volcanoes on the 
Earth. These erupt molten rock, or 
larva. Cryovolcanoes are also called 
ice volcanoes. They eject water, am­
monia or methane. These quickly 
turn into solids in freezing tempera­
tures. Temperatures on Pluto can fall 
to -233°C (-387°F). The coldest ever 
temperature recorded on the Earth is 
-88°C (-126°F).
Pluto’s other moons are called 
Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx. 
As Pluto was the Roman god o f the 
Underworld, or Hades, the names of 
the dw arf planet’s moons follow the 
same them e. In Ancient Greek my­
thology, Charon is the person who 
took the dead to the underworld on a 
boat. This boat crossed a river called 
the Styx. Nix is Charon’s mother. 
Hydra is a monster that was sup­
posedly born in the Styx. Kerberos 
(which is the Greek for Cerberus) 
was a three-headed hound, or large 
dog, that guarded the entrance to 
Hades. □
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An international team o f sci­
entists was working on the is­
land o f Santiago, in the Atlantic 
Ocean. It is part o f Cape Verde, 
a country made up o f ten volcan­
ic islands. Cape Verde is off the 
coast o f north west Africa. Some 
huge rocks, or boulders, on San­
tiago, puzzled the scientists. They 
now believe that these 700-tonne 
boulders were carried there by a 
huge wave, or tsunami.
The island o f Fogo is about 51 kil­
ometres (32 miles) from Santiago. It 
has an active volcano. 
Fogo
means 
fire in Portuguese. (Cape Verde used 
to be a Portuguese colony.) Fogo’s
last big eruption was in 1680. This 
eruption lasted for several years. 
However, part o f the rim o f an 
older volcano is missing. This can 
be seen easily from satellite photo­
graphs. From studies o f the nearby 
sea floor, it’s known that this part, 
or flank, fell into the sea thousands 
o f years ago. It was thought that 
this collapse happened in stages. 
Over a long time, these gradual col­
lapses may have triggered several 
small tsunamis.
One o f the boulders on Santiago (Ricardo Ramalho)
There is a high plateau, or flat 
area, on one side o f Santiago. This 
side faces the Fogo volcano. The 
scientist noticed that the large boul­
ders and the rocks o f the plateau are 
different. The boulders are near a 
steep cliff at the edge o f the plateau. 
They are about 610 metres (2,000 
feet) from the coast. The scientists 
discovered that the boulders were 
made o f a type o f limestone. The 
plateau is volcanic rock. The near­
est layer o f limestone rock is farther 
down the cliff face, nearer the sea. 
The scientists are sure that the boul­
ders were ripped out o f this rock 
layer. They were then carried up­
wards and left on the plateau.
The scientists say that the only 
force that could have done this is 
a huge tsunami. They created a 
computer model. Then, using the 
boulders’ weight and the distance 
they moved, it calculated the en­
ergy needed to move the boulders. 
To create this amount o f energy, the
wave must have been 244 metres 
(800 feet) high.
Undersea earthquakes usually 
trigger giant waves. In the last 15 
years there have been two devastat­
ing tsunamis. In 2004 an undersea 
quake caused a tsunami in the w est­
ern part o f the Indian Ocean. It killed
230,000 people in 14 countries. 
M ost o f the deaths were in Indone­
sia. In 2011 there was a powerful 
earthquake off the north east coast 
o f Japan. It destroyed several coast­
al towns and villages. Nearly 20,000 
people died. These tsunamis were 
about 30 metres (100 feet) high. 
Therefore the wave that hit Santiago 
was eight times as tall. If the scien­
tists are correct, the collapse o f the 
Fogo volcano’s flank did not hap­
pen gradually. It must have all fallen 
into the sea at the same time.
Satellite picture o f the Cape Verde islands (NASA)
The scientists were able to find out 
how long the boulders had been on 
the plateau. They did this by working 
out the length o f time the boulders 
have been exposed to the Sun. The 
scientists calculate that this huge 
wave or ‘megatsunami’ happened
73,000 years ago. Tsunamis caused 
by a huge amount o f rock falling into 
the sea have occurred in recorded his­
tory. There was one incident in Japan 
about 300 years ago. The other was 
more recent. It happened in Alaska, a 
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