I.V. Melekestsev

Institute of Volcanology and Seismology FEB RAS, Russia

The problem with existing of the Atlantis and its position is still debatable. A.A. Gorodnitsky (2006) suggested that it was situated at the top of the Amper sea-mountain, but it is also seems to be unlikely. More realistic version is the Atlantis was situated at an island within a seismically active western shelf of Iberian peninsula. This zone is characterized with a large number of giant underwater block-sliding, so-called allochthons as well as smaller landslides. The largest of them has a size of 180x300 km. We suppose it was slided down the sea during some seismic catastrophe and carried the Atlantis, situated atop of this block, under the water.