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Nature Geoscience 1, 211–212 (1 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo165
Earthquakes: Tsunamigenic Middle Earth
Abstract
Two decades after the destruction of Alexandria by a tsunami in AD 365, Ammianus Marcellinus wrote “the great mass of waters returning when it was least expected, killed many thousands of men by drowning; and by the swift recoil of the eddying tides a number of the shipwrecked persons lay floating on their backs or on their faces” (cited by ref. 1).
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