List of tsunamis in Europe explained

The following is a list of notable tsunamis in Europe.

Causes

Most of the tsunamis that have occurred within Europe have happened in the Mediterranean Sea because in the Mediterranean Sea there are earthquakes, submarine landslide and volcanoes. Most of the earthquakes occur on the Eurasian Plate but earthquakes and submarine landslide also occur in western Europe like France, Norway and the United Kingdom which have been struck by tsunamis.

Tsunamis

data-sort-type="number" Date CountryDead CauseNotes
data-sort-value="-62250000" ~6225-6170 BC Scotland, United KingdomUnknownUnderwater landslideStoregga Slide, Norway[1]
data-sort-value="-60000000" 6000 BC Sicily, ItalyUnknownVolcanic eruption
data-sort-value="-35000000" 3500 BC Northern IslesManyTsunamiUnclear[2]
data-sort-value="-14100000" 1410 BC Santorini, GreeceUnknownVolcanic eruption[3]
data-sort-value="-4260000" 426 BC Gulf of Euboea, GreeceUnknown Earthquake426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami
data-sort-value="-3730000" 373 BC Helike, GreeceUnknown EarthquakeAn earthquake and a tsunami destroyed the prosperous Greek city Helike, lying 2 km away from the sea. The fate of the city, which remained permanently submerged, was often commented upon by ancient writers and may have inspired Plato when writing his story of Atlantis in Timaeus and Critias.
data-sort-value="-2270000" 227 BCUnknownEarthquake226 BC Rhodes earthquake
data-sort-value="-2100000" 210 BCUnknownEarthquake[4]
data-sort-value="790000" 79 AD Gulf of Naples, ItalyUnknown Volcanic eruptionA smaller tsunami was witnessed in the Bay of Naples by Pliny the Younger during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.[5]
data-sort-value="2650721" 21 July 365 Crete, GreeceThousands8.0 earthquake 365 Crete earthquake
data-sort-value="5510707" 7 July 551 Menidi, Aetolia-Acarnania, GreeceUnknownEarthquake
data-sort-value="5540815" 15 August 554 Kos, GreeceUnknownEarthquake
data-sort-value="8421024" 24 October 842 Channel Islands United KingdomUnknown Earthquake[6]
data-sort-value="10500000" 1050 Santorini, GreeceUnknownVolcanic eruption
data-sort-value="10991111" 11 November 1099 Cornwall, United Kingdom, Unknown Unknown
data-sort-value="11341001" 1 October 1134Unknown Unknown [7]
data-sort-value="11690204" 4 February 1169 Strait of Messina, Italy, Unknown Earthquake
data-sort-value="12220311" 11 May 1222 CyprusUnknown Earthquake
data-sort-value="13030808" 8 August 1303 Crete, GreeceThousands8.0 earthquake 1303 Crete earthquake
data-sort-value="13431125" 25 November 1343 Tyrrhenian Sea, ItalyLoss of lives recorded unknown number. Earthquake
data-sort-value="14561205" 5 December 1456 Province of Benevento, Italy30,000–70,000Earthquake Largest earthquake to strike Italy.
data-sort-value="14810503" 3 May 1481 Rhodes, GreeceUnknown Earthquake
data-sort-value="15800406" 6 April 1580 Strait of Dover, United Kingdom120Earthquake/Underwater landslideThe 5.9 earthquake caused freak waves in the Strait of Dover which were observed in England and France.
data-sort-value="16070130" 30 January 1607 Bristol Channel, United Kingdom2,000 disputed tsunami caused by earthquake off Ireland
data-sort-value="16380327" 27 March 1638 Sicily, Italy9,581–30,000Earthquake
data-sort-value="16670406" 6 April 1667 Adriatic Sea, CroatiaUnknownEarthquakeThe tsunami struck the city of Dubrovnik.[8]
data-sort-value="16801009" 9 October 1680 Alboran Sea, SpainUnknown Unknown [9]
data-sort-value="16930111" 11 January 1693 Italy1000Earthquake
data-sort-value="16930000" 1693 IcelandUnknown Volcanic earthquake[10]
data-sort-value="17230221" 21 February 1723 Lefkada, GreeceUnknownEarthquake
data-sort-value="17230221" 20 February 1743 Apulia, Italy180–300Earthquake
data-sort-value="17480514" 14 May 1748UnknownEarthquake
data-sort-value="17570707" 7 July 1757 Isles of Scilly, United KingdomUnknown Earthquake
data-sort-value="17600121" 21 January 1760 Baltic Sea, Denmark, GermanyUnknown Underwater landslide[11]
data-sort-value="17670905" 5 September 1767 Dublin Republic of IrelandUnknown Unknown [12]
data-sort-value="17830200" February 5, February 6, February 7, March 1, March 28, 1783 Calabria, Italy50,000Earthquakes
data-sort-value="17551101" 1 November 1755 Lisbon, Portugal10,000 Earthquake[13]
data-sort-value="17610331" 31 March 1761 Lisbon, PortugalUnknown Earthquake Moderate tsunami observed in Cornwall and Barbados.
data-sort-value="17630918" 18 September 1763 Weymouth, Dorset, United KingdomUnknown Unknown
data-sort-value="18080402" 2 April 1808 Coast, ItalyUnknownEarthquakeAn earthquake in Italy caused a possible tsunami that was observed in Marseille, France.[14]
data-sort-value="18170823" 23 August 1817 Gulf of Corinth, GreeceUnknownEarthquake
data-sort-value="18201229" 29 December 1820 Zakynthos, GreeceUnknownEarthquake
data-sort-value="18430705" 5 July 1843 Cornwall, United KingdomUnknown Unknown
data-sort-value="18561012" 12 October 1856 Crete, GreeceUnknownEarthquake
data-sort-value="18670919" 19 September 1867 Ionian Sea Greece12Earthquake
data-sort-value="18810403" Chios, Greece7,866Earthquake
data-sort-value="18860827" 27 August 1886 Ionian Sea, GreeceUnknown Earthquake
data-sort-value="18870223" 23 February 1887 Ligurian Sea, FranceUnknown Earthquake
data-sort-value="18930614" 14 June 1893 Adriatic Sea, AlbaniaUnknown 7.5 earthquake[15]
data-sort-value="19010331" 31 March 1901 Black Sea, Bulgaria07.2 earthquake [16]
data-sort-value="19050116" 16 January 1905 Loen, Norway61Landslide[17]
data-sort-value="19050908" 8 September 1905 Calabria, Italy557 Earthquake
data-sort-value="19081228" 28 December 1908 Messina, Italy200,000 7.2 earthquake
data-sort-value="19300911" 11 September 1930 Italy2Earthquake
data-sort-value="19320926" Ierissos, Greece491Earthquake1932 Ierissos earthquake
data-sort-value="19340407" 7 April 1934 Tafjord Norway40
Landslide
data-sort-value="19360913" 13 September 1936 Loen, Norway74Landslide
September 10 1953 Paphos, Cyprus40Earthquake
data-sort-value="19560709" 9 July 1956 Aegean Islands Greece3Earthquake
data-sort-value="19560709" 9 July 1956 Dodecanese Greece56Earthquake
data-sort-value="19631009" 9 October 1963 Monte Toc, Italy1,450Landslide
data-sort-value="19690228" 28 February 1969 Portugal0Earthquake
data-sort-value="19780621" 21 June 1978 Vela Luka, Croatia0Meteorologic[18]
data-sort-value="19791016" 16 October 1979 Nice, France8-23Landslide and underwater landslide [19]
data-sort-value="19800101" 1 January 1980 Azores, Portugal0Earthquake
data-sort-value="19901213" 13 December 1990 Italy6Earthquake
data-sort-value="20021230" 30 December 2002 Stromboli, Italy0Landslide
data-sort-value="20030521" 21 May 2003 Balearic islands, Spain0EarthquakeThe earthquake was off the coast of Algeria.[20] [21]
data-sort-value="20110629" 29 June 2011 Cornwall, United Kingdom0Underwater landslide[22] [23] [24]
data-sort-value="20201030" 30 October 2020 Aegean Islands, Greece1EarthquakeA magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Turkey, producing a 2.2 meter-high tsunami that would later strike the coast of Turkey, and the Aegean Islands, including Ikaria, Kos, Chios, and Samos.[25]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tsunami Deposits Evidence Search. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  2. Bondevik . Stein . Mangerud . Jan . Dawson . Sue . Dawson . Alastair . Lohne . Øystein . Evidence for three North Sea tsunamis at the Shetland Islands between 8000 and 1500 years ago . Quaternary Science Reviews . 1 August 2005 . 24 . 14 . 1757–1775 . 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.10.018 . 2005QSRv...24.1757B . en . 0277-3791. 1956/735 . free .
  3. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  4. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?op_14=eq&v_14=PORTUGAL&bt_10=1&d=7&t=101650&s=70
  5. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  6. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  7. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?op_14=eq&v_14=NORTH+SEA&bt_10=1&d=7&t=101650&s=70
  8. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  9. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  10. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  11. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  12. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  13. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  14. Web site: Evaluating and preventing the tsunami risk for France's metropolitan and overseas coasts - Sénat. 24 January 2016.
  15. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  16. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  17. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  18. Web site: Riješena zagonetka plimnog vala koji je pogodio Vela Luku 1978. godine. Dubrovački vjesnik. 24 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160131164054/http://dubrovacki.hr/clanak/20943/rijesena-zagonetka-plimnog-vala-koji-je-pogodio-vela-luku-1968-godine. 31 January 2016. dead.
  19. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  20. Web site: Tsunami Events Full Search, sort by Date, Country. Paula Dunbar. 24 January 2016.
  21. Web site: Tsunamis in Spain. 24 January 2016.
  22. News: Bowater . Donna . Landslide causes tsunamis off the coast of Cornwall . https://web.archive.org/web/20110702023309/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/8605946/Landslide-causes-tsunamis-off-the-coast-of-Cornwall.html . dead . July 2, 2011 . Telegraph . 29 June 2011. 2011-09-19 . London.
  23. Web site: Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Tsunami waves hit UK coastline . Express.co.uk . 2011-06-30 . 2011-09-19.
  24. Web site: South coast hit by tsunami after ocean landslide . mirror.co.uk . 2011-06-30 . 2011-09-19.
  25. Web site: Serious tsunami hits Greece and Turkey after 7.0 earthquake . Unesco . 12 Nov 2020. 2021-07-03.

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