Transportation between the local settlements became more difficult, with Procopius reporting a requirement of many detours to reach one's destination.
[1] Procopius reports that the earthquake coincided in time with a military expedition of the general Narses against the Ostrogoths, dating the event to the final years of the Gothic War.
[1] While Procopius connected this earthquake to pre-existing seismic faults, the journal Annals of Geophysics considered another possible cause for it.
The stability of the local slopes was apparently sufficiently disturbed to cause subsequent events, such slumping of the coasts.
The chronicler John Malalas (6th century) reports the destruction of many ships in the city's vicinity by a large wave, possibly another tsunami.