1343 Naples tsunami

1343 tsunami affecting the southwestern coast of Italy 1343 earthquake yes 25 November 1343 Italy Tyrrhenian Sea 40 44 7 N 14 16 31 E type:event_scale:1000000 it Yes Yes thumb|300px|Tyrrhenian Sea. The 1343 tsunami struck the Tyrrhenian Sea and Bay of Naples on 25 November 1343. Underground shocks were felt in Naples and caused significant damage and loss of lives.https://books.google.com/books?id=v_a-wtLJ5XIC&pg=PA39 Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea, 2000 B.C.-2000 A.D. Solovʹev, Sergeĭ Leonidovich Springer 2000 39 978-0-7923-6548-8 Of major note was a tsunami created by the earthquake which destroyed many ships in Naples and destroyed many ports along the Amalfi Coast including Amalfi itself. The effects of the tsunami were observed by the poet Petrarch, whose ship was forced to return to port, and recorded in the fifth book of his Epistolae familiares.Tateo F. Le calamità ambientali nel tardo Medioevo europeo: realtà, percezioni, reazioni : atti del XII Convegno del Centro studi sulla civiltà del tardo Medioevo : S. Miniato, 31 maggio-2 giugno 2008 Mattheus M. Firenze University Press 2010 12 111 Horribile dictu: environmental catastrophes and writing in the late Middle Ages 978-88-8453-499-6 https://books.google.com/books?id=O2S4h2KDaM0C&pg=PP1 21 June 2012 Italian A 2019 study attributes the event to a massive submarine landslide (possibly greater than 1 km3), caused by flank collapse of the Stromboli volcano.Rosi M. Levi S. T. Pistolesi M. Bertagnini A. Brunelli D. Cannavò V. Di Renzoni A. Ferranti F. Renzulli A. Yoon D. 2019-01-24 Geoarchaeological Evidence of Middle-Age Tsunamis at Stromboli and Consequences for the Tsunami Hazard in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea Scientific Reports 9 1 677 10.1038/s41598-018-37050-3 30679656 6346119 2019NatSR...9..677R 2045-2322 free See also List of earthquakes in Italy List of historical earthquakes List of tsunamis in Europe References Naples earthquake 1343 Category:1343 in Europe Category:14th century in the Kingdom of Naples Naples earthquake Naples earthquake Category:Joanna I of Naples