New analysis disputes historic earthquake, tsunami and death toll on Greek island

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Jan 22, 2026, 10:30 pm108 ptsTrending
For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful tsunami and led to the deaths of as many as 600 people. But a new analysis of primary accounts of the event by Ioanna Triantafyllou at Hellenic Mediterranean University suggests the truth was…

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