The following is a list of notable tsunamis in Europe.
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 KingdomUnknownUnderwater landslideStoregga Slide, Norway 6000 BC Sicily, ItalyUnknownVolcanic eruption 3500 BC Northern IslesManyTsunamiUnclear 1410 BC Santorini, GreeceUnknownVolcanic eruption 426 BC Gulf of Euboea, GreeceUnknown Earthquake426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami 373 BC Helike, GreeceUnknown EarthquakeAn 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. 227 BC Dodecanese, Greece UnknownEarthquake226 BC Rhodes earthquake 210 BC Gulf of Cádiz, Portugal UnknownEarthquake 79 AD Gulf of Naples, ItalyUnknown Volcanic eruptionA smaller tsunami was witnessed in the Bay of Naples by Pliny the Younger during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 21 July 365 Crete, GreeceThousands8.0 earthquake 365 Crete earthquake 7 July 551 Menidi, Aetolia-Acarnania, GreeceUnknownEarthquake 15 August 554 Kos, GreeceUnknownEarthquake 24 October 842 Channel Islands United KingdomUnknown Earthquake 1050 Santorini, GreeceUnknownVolcanic eruption 11 November 1099 Cornwall, United Kingdom, Unknown Unknown 1 October 1134 North Sea, United Kingdom, Netherlands Unknown Unknown 4 February 1169 Strait of Messina, Italy, Unknown Earthquake 11 May 1222 CyprusUnknown Earthquake 8 August 1303 Crete, GreeceThousands8.0 earthquake 1303 Crete earthquake 25 November 1343 Tyrrhenian Sea, ItalyLoss of lives recorded unknown number. Earthquake 5 December 1456 Province of Benevento, Italy30,000–70,000Earthquake Largest earthquake to strike Italy. 3 May 1481 Rhodes, GreeceUnknown Earthquake 6 April 1580 Strait of Dover, United Kingdom120Earthquake/Underwater landslideThe 5.9 earthquake caused freak waves in the Strait of Dover which were observed in England and France. 30 January 1607 Bristol Channel, United Kingdom2,000 disputed tsunami caused by earthquake off Ireland 27 March 1638 Sicily, Italy9,581–30,000Earthquake 6 April 1667 Adriatic Sea, CroatiaUnknownEarthquakeThe tsunami struck the city of Dubrovnik. 9 October 1680 Alboran Sea, SpainUnknown Unknown 11 January 1693 Italy1000Earthquake 1693 IcelandUnknown Volcanic earthquake 21 February 1723 Lefkada, GreeceUnknownEarthquake 20 February 1743 Apulia, Italy180–300Earthquake 14 May 1748 Gulf of Patras, Greece UnknownEarthquake 7 July 1757 Isles of Scilly, United KingdomUnknown Earthquake 21 January 1760 Baltic Sea, Denmark, GermanyUnknown Underwater landslide 5 September 1767 Dublin Republic of IrelandUnknown Unknown February 5, February 6, February 7, March 1, March 28, 1783 Calabria, Italy50,000Earthquakes 1 November 1755 Lisbon, Portugal10,000 Earthquake 31 March 1761 Lisbon, PortugalUnknown Earthquake Moderate tsunami observed in Cornwall and Barbados. 18 September 1763 Weymouth, Dorset, United KingdomUnknown Unknown 2 April 1808 Coast, ItalyUnknownEarthquakeAn earthquake in Italy caused a possible tsunami that was observed in Marseille, France. 23 August 1817 Gulf of Corinth, GreeceUnknownEarthquake 29 December 1820 Zakynthos, GreeceUnknownEarthquake 5 July 1843 Cornwall, United KingdomUnknown Unknown 12 October 1856 Crete, GreeceUnknownEarthquake 19 September 1867 Ionian Sea Greece12Earthquake 3 April 1881 Chios, Greece7,866Earthquake 27 August 1886 Ionian Sea, GreeceUnknown Earthquake 23 February 1887 Ligurian Sea, FranceUnknown Earthquake 14 June 1893 Adriatic Sea, AlbaniaUnknown 7.5 earthquake 31 March 1901 Black Sea, Bulgaria07.2 earthquake 16 January 1905 Loen, Norway61Landslide 8 September 1905 Calabria, Italy557 Earthquake 28 December 1908 Messina, Italy80,000 7.1 earthquake 11 September 1930 Italy2Earthquake 26 September 1932 Ierissos, Greece491Earthquake1932 Ierissos earthquake 7 April 1934 Tafjord Norway40Landslide 13 September 1936 Loen, Norway74Landslide September 10, 1953 Paphos, Cyprus40Earthquake 9 July 1956 Aegean Islands Greece3Earthquake 9 July 1956 Dodecanese Greece56Earthquake 9 October 1963 Monte Toc, Italy1,450Landslide 28 February 1969 Portugal0Earthquake 21 June 1978 Vela Luka, Croatia0Meteorologic 16 October 1979 Nice, France8-23Landslide and underwater landslide 1 January 1980 Azores, Portugal0Earthquake 13 December 1990 Italy6Earthquake 30 December 2002 Stromboli, Italy0Landslide 21 May 2003 Balearic Islands, Spain0EarthquakeThe earthquake was off the coast of Algeria. 29 June 2011 Cornwall, United Kingdom0Underwater landslide 30 October 2020 Aegean Islands, Greece1EarthquakeA magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Turkey, producing a 2.2 meter-high tsunami that would later strike the coast of Turkey, and the Aegean Islands, including Ikaria, Kos, Chios, and Samos.
See also Tsunamis affecting the British Isles List of tsunamis
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