The Universal Event
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The Universal Event was the name given to the massive earthquake (and tsunami) with an epicenter at or near the island of Crete, which affected the whole of the Mediterranean Sea, on the morning of July 21, 365 A.D. (July 22, 365 A.D., Gregorian Calendar).
In terms of human history it was the largest earthquake to ever affect the Mediterranean. As a trading power Crete was destroyed, Roman buildings in Sicily, Libya, and Alexandria were all affected by the catastrophe. The earthquake and destruction it caused at Kourion, on the island of Cyprus, is featured in the July, 1988 issue of National Geographic magazine (Vol. 174, No. 1, p.30-53).
