363 CE Seiche
No physical
tsunamigenic evidence
from the
363 CE Cyril Quakes
has been conclusively identified in the Dead Sea.
However,
Jerome in Commentariorum In Esaiam relays oral reports from
Areopolis
describing a
seiche in the Dead Sea generated by one of the
363 CE Cyril Quakes.
Although Jerome appears to have conflated these
reports with Mediterranean tsunamis associated with
the
365 CE Crete earthquake,
this does not warrant dismissal of the Dead Sea
account. The report may preserve genuine evidence of
a seiche, and the associated seismites merit further
geological investigation for possible tsunamigenic
signatures.