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Two earthquakes, 7 days apart / 3,783 buildings destroyed [76] 1893-05-23 Thebes: 38.31 23.25 2 6.2 VIII: According to the available data, the seismic activity began on March 26 with a 5.1 Richter earthquake, while the next day a 5.2 Richter tremor occurred. The seismic tremors continued with smaller magnitudes until May 22.
226 BC Rhodes earthquake; 479 BC Potidaea earthquake; 1481 Rhodes earthquake; 1743 Salento earthquake; 1810 Crete earthquake; 1856 Heraklion earthquake; 1861 Eliki earthquake; 1881 Chios earthquake; 1886 Peloponnese earthquake; 1894 Atalanti earthquakes; 1904 Samos earthquake; 1928 Chirpan–Plovdiv earthquakes; 1932 Ierissos earthquake; 1933 ...
An 1880 portrayal of the Colossus of Rhodes, which was destroyed in the earthquake of 226 BC. At the time of the earthquake, Rhodes was an Aegean port city which was famous for the large bronze statue that stood near its harbor. [7] It was one of the major trading cities of the Mediterranean Sea, along with the city of Alexandria in Egypt.
Earthquakes as part of an ongoing swarm event continue to shake the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, including the popular tourist destination of Santorini, officially known as Thira.. A magnitude ...
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake that was followed by several additional aftershocks rocked portions of Greece and the Balkan Peninsula on Wednesday, causing localized damage and trapping at least one ...
In Rhodes, one of the worst affected Greek islands, more than 20,000 tourists and locals fled from the blaze in “the biggest evacuation” in Greece’s history.
The 1856 Heraklion earthquake, also known as the Crete earthquake or Rhodes earthquake, occurred on the morning of October 12 at 02:45 am local time. [1] This extremely catastrophic earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.7 to 8.3 at a depth of approximately 61 to 100 km. [2] The earthquake was felt over a very wide area extending from Sicily, Italy to the Levant and North Africa. [3]
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 has struck southern Greece off the coast of the western Peloponnese. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the quake, which ...