What the records say
- When
- Jun 426 BCE
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 38.90° N, 22.70° E
- Deaths
- 2500
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.1
- Runups
- 12
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami
Natural disaster in Ancient Greece
The 426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami devastated the coasts of the Malian and Euboean Gulfs, Greece, in the summer of 426 BC. Thucydides inquired into its causes, and concluded that the tsunami must have been caused by an earthquake. He was thus historically the first known to correctly interpret the cause of a tsunami as a preceding geological event.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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