Tsunami — Lake Geneva

When

563

Kind

Tsunami

Coordinates

46.36° N, 6.82° E

Runups

0

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Ancient Tsunami on Lake Geneva

The Tauredunum event of 563 AD was a tsunami on Lake Geneva, triggered by a massive landslide which caused widespread devastation and loss of life along the lakeshore. According to two contemporary chroniclers, the disaster was caused by the collapse of a mountainside at a place called Tauredunum at the eastern end of Lake Geneva.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Tauredunum event: A mountain landslide into the Rhone river destroys a fort and two villages, and creates a tsunami in Lake Geneva”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ein Felssturz im Bereich des Deltas der Rhone löst im Genfersee einen Tsunami aus (Tauredunum-Ereignis)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un glissement de terrain dans la région de Saint-Maurice (massif du Grammont) forme un barrage sur le Rhône avec montée des eaux en amont”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “発生日時不詳 ： レマン湖にて津波が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page