Strabo Geography 1.3.20

[20] Demetrius of Callatis, speaking of the earthquakes which formerly occurred throughout the whole of Greece, states that a great portion of the Lichadian Islands and of Kenaeum ¹ were submerged; that the hot springs of Aedepsus ² and Thermopylae were suppressed for three days, and that when they commenced to run again those of Aedepsus gushed from new fountains. That at Oreus ³ on the sea-coast the wall and nearly seven hundred houses fell at once. That the greater part of Echinus, ⁴ Phalara, ⁵ and Heraclaea of Trachis ⁶ were thrown down, Phalara being overturned from its very foundations. That almost the same misfortune occurred to the Lamians ⁷ and inhabitants of Larissa; that Scarpheia ⁸ was overthrown from its foundations, not less than one thousand seven hundred persons being swallowed up, and at Thronium ⁹ more than half that number. That a torrent of water gushed forth taking three directions, one to Scarphe and Thronium, another to Thermopylae, and a third to the plains of Daphnus in Phocis. That the springs of [many] rivers were for several days dried up; that the course of the Sperchius ¹⁰ was changed, thus rendering navigable what formerly were highways; that the Boagrius ¹¹ flowed through another channel; that many parts of Alope, Cynus, and Opus were injured, ¹² and the castle of Oeum, which commands the latter city, entirely overturned. That part of the wall of Elateia ¹³ was thrown down; and that at Alponus, ¹⁴ during the celebration of the games in honour of Ceres, twenty-five maidens, who had mounted a tower to enjoy the show exhibited in the port, were precipitated into the sea by the falling of the tower. They also record that a large fissure was made [by the water] through the midst of the island of Atalanta, ¹⁵ opposite Euboea, ¹⁶ sufficient for ships to sail in; that the course of the channel was in places as broad as twenty stadia between the plains; and that a trireme being raised [thereby] out of the docks, was carried over the walls.