January 1, 1341 Tsunami: Crimea, Ukraine
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 6 earthquake began at Crimea, Ukraine on January 1, 1341.
Where the waves reached
The source of the tsunami. No runup with a place is recorded for it.
- Under 1 m
- 1 to 3 m
- 3 to 10 m
- 10 to 30 m
- 30 m and more
- Height not recorded
The tsunami
- Date
- January 1, 1341
- Source
- Crimea, Ukraine
- Cause
- Earthquake
- Earthquake
- Magnitude 6
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Erroneous entry
- Source location
- 44.300° N, 34.300° E
The toll
The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this tsunami.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
1341, January 1. 44.3 N, 34.3 E, magnitude 6, intensity VII-VIII. Vague information; tsunamis in Yevpatoriya region. (reference #223)
1343, October 18. Sea of Marmara. Modern writers incorrectly put the earthquake in Cherson in the Crimea (Smirnov 1931, 10, 24). Ambraseys, N., 2009, Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East, A Multidisciplinary Study of Seismicity up to 1900. Cambridge University Press, 947 p. (p. 367, reference #9116)
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Sources
Tsunami events and runups from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI tsunami event 5556.