The 1522 Almería earthquake was a severe earthquake with an epicenter northwest of the southern Spanish city of Almería . The quake occurred on September 22, 1522 and had a strength of 6.5 to 7 M w on the moment magnitude scale . In the completely destroyed Almería, 2500 people were killed in the quake. Disaster reports from the 16th century and the investigation of sediment structures from drill cores point to tsunami events as a result of the earthquake in the western Mediterranean and Madeira .
^ Klaus Reicherter, Peter Becker-Heidmann: Tsunamites in lagunas: remains of the 1522 Almería earthquake (western Mediterranean). 2nd International Tsunami Field Symposium, IGCP Project 495: Quaternary Land-Ocean Interactions: Driving Mechanisms and Coastal Responses, Ostuni (Italy) and Ionian Islands (Greece), 22-28 September 2008. pp. 127–129 (full text available on ResearchGate )
^ Klaus Reicherter, Peter Becker-Heidmann: Tsunami deposits in the western Mediterranean: remains of the 1522 Almería earthquake? Pp. 217–236 in: Klaus Reicherter, Alessandro M. Michetti, Pablo Gabriel Silva (Eds.): Palaeoseismology: Historical and Prehistorical Records of Earthquake Ground Effects for Seismic Hazard Assessment. Geological Society Special Publication 316. London 2009, ISBN 978-1-86239-276-2 , p. 219
