The phrase “226 BC Rhodes earthquake” does not correspond to a widely documented or historically verified seismic event in the scholarly literature. While Rhodes, an island in the eastern Aegean Sea, has experienced numerous earthquakes throughout antiquity, the primary ancient source that associates a major earthquake with Rhodes cites an event in 226 AD (or CE), which is recorded as the destruction of the Colossus of Rhodes. No reliable ancient or modern sources confirm a significant earthquake occurring on Rhodes specifically in 226 BC. Consequently, the term lacks sufficient encyclopedic information and appears to be a misdating or conflation with the documented 226 AD earthquake.
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