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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 ...
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).
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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 ...
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 ...
The map shows the epicentre of the quake was near the city of Gaziantep at a depth of 17.9km, ... Welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of the earthquake that hit Turkey early on Monday. We ...
List of earthquakes in the Levant * ... 1033 Jordan Valley earthquake; 1068 Near East earthquake; 1138 Aleppo earthquake; 1157 Hama earthquake; 1170 Syria earthquake;
Casualties surge as tremor leads to several buildings collapsing in the Unesco World Heritage site