Earthquake Timeline

• c. 1200 BCE
  Earthquake severely damages Tiryns.
• c. 550 BCE
  The sacred Nazca site of Cahuachi is abandoned, probably due to climate change and earthquake.
• 373 BCE
  An earthquake destroys the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
• 231 BCE
  Pyrrha on Lesbos is destroyed by an earthquake.
• 17 BCE
  An earthquake destroys 12 cities in Lydia, including Sardis.
• 365 CE
  Gortyn is destroyed by a devastating earthquake.
• 522 CE - 551 CE
  Earthquakes destroy many of the buildings at Olympia.
• 551 CE
  Epidaurus site definitively destroyed by earthquake.
• 670 CE
  Gortyn is destroyed by earthquake.