Abstract
About 300 descriptions of tsunamis and similar phenomena are known for the Mediterranean Sea. One can conventionally single out the following zones of origin and manifestation of tsunamis in the region, based on the seismotectonic conditions (Fig. 1):
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Abbreviations
- SM:
-
the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits;
- NG:
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the Aegean coast of northern Greece;
- EG:
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the coast of eastern Greece;
- AM:
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the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor;
- AS:
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the Aegean Sea;
- HA:
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the Hellenic Island Arc;
- IC:
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the Island of Cyprus;
- NE:
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the coast of the Near East;
- WG:
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the coast of western Greece;
- AL:
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the coast of Albania;
- DL:
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the coast of Montenegro and of Croatia;
- GV:
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the Gulf of Venice;
- EI:
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the eastern (Adriatic and Ionian) coast of Italy;
- CA:
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the Calabrian Island Arc, i.e. the Calabria district within continental Italy and the Island of Sicily;
- WI:
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the western coast of Italy, washed by the Tyrrhenian Sea
- LS:
-
the Ligurian Sea;
- SP:
-
the coast of Spain;
- AF:
-
the coast of northern Africa
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Soloviev, S.L. et al. (2000). Main Tsunamigenic Zones in the Mediterranean Sea. In: Bonnin, J., Levin, B.W., Tinti, S., Papadopoulos, G.A. (eds) Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea 2000 B.C.–2000 A.D.. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9510-0_1
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