 Accounts suggest that a flood affected Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Cumbria, and Mount's Bay in Cornwall, where the Bay was "inundated by a ‘mickle seaflood’ when many towns and people were drowned".On 6 April 1580 a 5.8 magnitude earthquake occurred with its epicentre on the sea bed close to Calais.Giant waves were reported at the time and hundreds of people were killed when ships were sunk by the waves and the low-lying coastal land around Calais was inundated by the sea.