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Tsunamigenic Middle Earth

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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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Figure 1: Tsunami sources and Mediterranean population targets.

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Bilham, R. Tsunamigenic Middle Earth. Nature Geosci 1, 211–212 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo165

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