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An earthquake struck the Jordan Rift Valley on December 5, AD 1033 and caused extreme devastation in the Levant region. It was part of a sequence of four strong earthquakes in the region between 1033 and 1035. Scholars have estimated the moment magnitude to be greater than 7.0 M w and evaluated the Modified Mercalli intensity to X (Extreme).
1033–34 – 1033 Jordan Rift Valley earthquake: a series of earthquakes which are felt for 40 days [clarification needed] [dubious – discuss] destroys Ramla, Jericho and Nablus [9] 70,000 deaths. [24] 1063 – a large earthquake hits the Levantine littoral. Acre is badly damaged [11] 1068 – ground-rupturing event in Wadi Arabah. Ramla was ...
The 1759 Near East earthquakes shook a large portion of the Levant in October and November of that year. This geographical crossroads in the Eastern Mediterranean were at the time under the rule of the Ottoman Empire (includes portions of what are now Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel, Palestine and Jordan).
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A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck Jordan and Syria late on Monday, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), with residents across both countries and in Lebanon feeling its ...
528 Antioch earthquake; 551 Beirut earthquake; 749 Galilee earthquake; 847 Damascus earthquake; 1033 Jordan Valley earthquake; 1068 Near East earthquake; 1138 Aleppo earthquake; 1157 Hama earthquake; 1170 Syria earthquake; 1202 Syria earthquake; 1344 Syria earthquake; 1759 Near East earthquakes; 1796 Latakia earthquake; 1822 Aleppo earthquake ...
All local and regional earthquake catalogues list one or more earthquakes that affected the Middle East in the mid-8th century, with reported damage in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria. The primary sources offer multiple year dates for the seismic events, but seismic catalogues of the 1980s and 1990s agreed in attributing all ...
The Jordan Rift Valley was formed many millions of years ago in the Miocene epoch (23.8 – 5.3 Myr ago) when the Arabian plate moved northward and then eastward away from Africa. One million years later, the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan Rift Valley rose so that the sea water stopped flooding the area. Alternatively, it was a ...