List of tsunamis in Europe

The following is a list of notable tsunamis in Europe.

The aftermath of the Messina earthquake and tsunami on December 28, 1908

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
Date Country Dead Cause Notes
~6225-6170 BC Scotland, United Kingdom Unknown Underwater landslide Storegga Slide, Norway[1]
6000 BC Sicily, Italy Unknown Volcanic eruption
5500 BP Northern Isles Many Tsunami Unclear[2]
1410 BC Santorini, Greece Unknown Volcanic eruption [3]
426 BC Gulf of Euboea, Greece Unknown Earthquake 426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami [3]
373 BC Helike, Greece Unknown Earthquake An 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.[3]
227 BC Dodecanese, Greece Unknown Earthquake 226 BC Rhodes earthquake [3]
210 BC Gulf of Cadiz, Portugal Unknown Earthquake [4]
79 AD Gulf of Naples, Italy Unknown Volcanic eruption A smaller tsunami was witnessed in the Bay of Naples by Pliny the Younger during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.[5]
21 July 365 Crete, Greece Thousands 8.0 earthquake 365 Crete earthquake[3]
7 July 551 Menidi, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece Unknown Earthquake [3]
15 August 554 Kos, Greece Unknown Earthquake [3]
24 October 842 Channel Islands United Kingdom Unknown Earthquake [6]
1050 Santorini, Greece Unknown Volcanic eruption [3]
11 November 1099 Cornwall, United Kingdom, Unknown Unknown [6]
1 October 1134 North Sea, United Kingdom, Netherlands Unknown Unknown [7]
4 February 1169 Strait of Messina, Italy, Unknown Earthquake [5]
11 May 1222 Cyprus Unknown Earthquake [3]
8 August 1303 Crete, Greece Thousands 8.0 earthquake 1303 Crete earthquake[3]
November 25, 1343 Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy Loss of lives recorded unknown number. Earthquake [5]
3 May 1481 Rhodes, Greece Unknown Earthquake [3]
6 April 1580 Strait of Dover, United Kingdom 120 Earthquake/Underwater landslide The 5.9 earthquake caused freak waves in the Strait of Dover which were observed in England and France.[6]
30 January 1607 Bristol Channel, United Kingdom 2,000 disputed tsunami caused by earthquake off Ireland
6 April 1667 Adriatic Sea, Croatia Unknown Earthquake The tsunami struck the city of Dubrovnik.[8]
9 October 1680 Alboran Sea, Spain Unknown Unknown [9]
11 January 1693 Italy 1000 Earthquake [5]
1693 Iceland Unknown Volcanic earthquake [10]
21 February 1723 Lefkada, Greece Unknown Earthquake [3]
14 May 1748 Gulf of Patras, Greece Unknown Earthquake [3]
7 July 1757 Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom Unknown Earthquake [6]
21 January 1760 Baltic Sea, Denmark, Germany Unknown Underwater landslide [11]
5 September 1767 Dublin Republic of Ireland Unknown Unknown [12]
February 5, February 6, February 7, March 1, March 28, 1783 Calabria, Italy 50,000 Earthquakes [5]
1 November 1755 Lisbon, Portugal 10,000 Earthquake [13]
18 September 1763 Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom Unknown Unknown [6]
2 April 1808 Coast, Italy Unknown Earthquake An earthquake in Italy caused a possible tsunami that was observed in Marseille, France.[5][14]
23 August 1817 Gulf of Corinth, Greece Unknown Earthquake [3]
29 December 1820 Zakynthos, Greece Unknown Earthquake [3]
5 July 1843 Cornwall, United Kingdom Unknown Unknown [6]
12 October 1856 Crete, Greece Unknown Earthquake [3]
19 September 1867 Ionian Sea Greece 12 Earthquake [3]
3 April 1881 Chios, Greece 7,866 Earthquake [3]
27 August 1886 Ionian Sea, Greece Unknown Earthquake [3]
23 February 1887 Ligurian Sea, France Unknown Earthquake [5][14]
14 June 1893 Adriatic Sea, Albania Unknown 7.5 earthquake [15]
16 January 1905 Loen, Norway 61 Landslide [16]
September 8, 1905 Calabria, Italy 557 Earthquake [5]
December 28, 1908 Messina, Italy 200,000 7.2 earthquake [5]
31 March 1901 Black Sea, Bulgaria 0 7.2 earthquake [17]
11 September 1930 Italy 2 Earthquake [5]
26 September 1932 Ierissos, Greece 491 Earthquake 1932 Ierissos earthquake [3]
7 April 1934 Tafjord Norway 40
 Landslide [16]
13 September 1936 Loen, Norway 74 Landslide [16]
9 July 1956 Aegean Islands Greece 3 Earthquake [3]
9 July 1956 Dodecanese Greece 56 Earthquake [3]
October 9, 1963 Monte Toc, Italy 1,450 Landslide
28 February 1969 Portugal 0 Earthquake [13]
21 June 1978 Vela Luka, Croatia 0 Meteorologic [18][19]
16 October 1979 Nice, France 8-23 Landslide and underwater landslide [20]
1 January 1980 Azores, Portugal 0 Earthquake [13]
13 December 1990 Italy 6 Earthquake [5]
30 December 2002 Stromboli, Italy 0 Landslide [5]
21 May 2003 Balearic islands, Spain 0 Earthquake The earthquake was off the coast of Algeria.[21][22]
29 June 2011 Cornwall, United Kingdom 0 Meteorologic [6][23][24][25]
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See also
  • Tsunamis in the United Kingdom
  • Historic tsunamis

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