479 BC Potidaea earthquake

Name: 479 BC Potidaea earthquake
Start: -0478

478 BCE.

Shown on the map at 39.700°, 23.300°.

The 479 BC Potidaea tsunami is the oldest record of a paleotsunami in human history. The tsunami is believed to have been triggered by a Ms 7.0 earthquake in the north Aegean Sea. The associated tsunami may have saved the colony of Potidaea from an invasion by Persians from the Achaemenid Empire.

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