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Nature Geoscience 1, 211 - 212 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo165
Earthquakes: Tsunamigenic Middle Earth
Roger Bilham1
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Roger Bilham is at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0399, USA.
e-mail: bilham@colorado.edu
Abstract
Violent uplift of western Crete in AD 365 generated a Mediterranean-wide tsunami that tossed boats onto house-tops in Alexandria, Egypt. Although a similar earthquake may not recur for 5,000 years, contiguous fault segments could rupture sooner.
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