Largest single flood on Earth happened 5 million years ago, and filled an empty Mediterranean Sea

Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis

Around 5.6 million years ago the Mediterranean Sea became disconnected from the world's oceans and during the period that followed, known as the Messinian salinity crisis, sea levels fell dramatically as the waters evaporated. The water returned, about 5.3 million years ago, but the details about this, the largest known flood in Earth's history, remain sketchy. A study making use of boreholes, seismic data and numerical modelling suggests that i…

The Zanclean Megaflood: This Is What The Largest Flood In Earth's History Did

Around 5 million years ago, the Zanclean Megaflood filled the dry Mediterranean Sea with Atlantic Ocean water, carving a trench through the Strait of Gibraltar

The largest flood in Earth's history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down a kilometer-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea, excavating a skyscraper-deep trough on its way.

The latest twist in the story of the megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean

The sea was refilled in just a few years – or months, writes Daniel García-Castellanos

Largest single flood on Earth happened 5 million years ago, and filled an empty Mediterranean Sea

This event is known as the Zanclean megaflood and is believed to be the largest single flood recorded on Earth. However, not all researchers agree. World Science & Tech

A new study confirms the impressive findings of a previous one that overturned what scientists believed about how the Mediterranean was created, at least as we know it today. The prevailing… New study confirms that the Mediterranean was created in a fast track flood (video) - ΙΝΑΦΤΕΜΟΠΟΡΙΚΙ