Event
Sparta suffers the effects of a severe earthquake leading to a large loss of life
464 BCE · 37.08° N, 22.43° E
What the records say
- When
- 464 BCE
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 37.08° N, 22.43° E
- Description
- Sparta suffers the effects of a severe earthquake leading to a large loss of life.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 464 BC Sparta earthquake.
3 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un terremoto de 7,2 asola Laconia y destruye Esparta”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “斯巴达发生强烈地震。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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