What the records say
- When
- 21 Jul 365
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.0
- Where
- Greece
- Coordinates
- 35.00° N, 23.00° E
- Deaths
- 5000
- Intensity mmi
- 11
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
365 Crete earthquake
Eastern Mediterranean natural disaster
The 365 Crete earthquake occurred at about sunrise on 21 July 365 in the Eastern Mediterranean, with an assumed epicentre near Crete. Geologists today estimate the undersea earthquake to have been a moment magnitude 8.5 or higher. It caused widespread destruction in the central and southern Diocese of Macedonia, Africa Proconsularis, Egypt, Cyprus, Sicily, and Hispania (Spain).
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6 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “An earthquake with a magnitude of at least eight strikes the Eastern Mediterranean”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Vor Kreta kommt es laut Überlieferung durch den römischen Historiker Ammianus Marcellinus zu einem schweren Erdbeben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “violent tremblement de terre suivi d'un raz-de-marée sur les côtes de la Méditerranée orientale”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la isla de Creta se registra un fuerte terremoto de 8,5, seguido de un devastador tsunami que devastó las costas del Mediterráneo”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “زمین لرزه و سونامیای کرت و اسکندریه را ویران ساخت و خرابیهای گستردهای را در یونان، ایتالیا و شمال لیبی باعث شد”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page