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was sufficiently damaged to require immediate rebuilding (Rhodes was at the time under siege by the Turks). The damage caused by the earthquakes led to a wave of rebuilding after 1481. Damage from the tsunami was said to be greater than from the earthquake. The tsunami caused a large ship to break
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Hellenic subduction zone and numerical simulations of historical tsunamis in the Eastern Mediterranean".
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Mediterranean and its connected seas: Geological signatures, generation mechanisms and coastal impacts".
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from tsunamis are limited, it is probable that the tsunami can be dated 1473 ± 46. The sediment found and studied appears to be consistent with the aforementioned tsunami.
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Alpar, Bedri; Ünlü, Selma; Altınok, Yıldız; Özer, Naşide; Aksu, Abdullah (28 December 2010). "New approaches in assessment of tsunami deposits in
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in Egypt may have been the effects of this earthquake. Shaking in Cairo was described as "severe", and minarets were observed swaying. A cresting on the
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