June 2, 1898 Tsunami: Peloponnesus, Greece
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7 earthquake and a landslide began at Peloponnesus, Greece on June 2, 1898 at 21:40 UTC.
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
- June 2, 1898, 21:40 UTC
- Source
- Peloponnesus, Greece
- Cause
- Earthquake and landslide
- Earthquake
- Magnitude 7
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Questionable tsunami
- Source location
- 37.600° N, 22.500° E
The toll
- Damage
- Moderate (about $1 to $5 million) with the earthquake or eruption that caused it
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Sea wave in Corinth Gulf. (reference #2427)
1898 06 02, East Corinth Gulf, Central Greece: Large, damaging shock caused tsunami that flooded the south coast of Corinth Gulf. The intermediate-depth focus favours tsunami generation rather by submarine slides than by co-seismic fault displacement. (reference #10357)
1898 06 02, improbable tsunami (reference #11164)
More
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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 3498.