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In Lebanon the fault zone forms a restraining bend associated with a right stepping offset of the fault trace. Transpressional deformation associated with this bend has formed a number of thrust faults , such as the recently identified Mount Lebanon thrust , which underlies the city and is interpreted to crop out at the seabed offshore.
Tyre juts out from the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, and is located about 80 km (50 mi) south of Beirut.It originally consisted of two distinct urban centres: Tyre itself, which was on an island just 500 to 700m offshore, and the associated settlement of Ushu on the adjacent mainland, later called Palaetyrus, meaning "Old Tyre" in Ancient Greek. [7]
All men in its path were reportedly engulfed and drowned. The location of the event was somewhere between Tyre, Lebanon and Ptolemais in Phoenicia (modern Acre, Israel). [1] The earthquake and tsunami reportedly followed a battle involving Diodotus Tryphon (reigned 142–138 BC) and the army of the Seleucid Empire. This would place the event ...
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — More than 4,200 people have been displaced from villages in south Lebanon by clashes on the border with Israel, and local officials said Friday that they are ill-prepared ...
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Aerial photo of Tyre, c. 1918. Tyre, in Lebanon, is one of the oldest cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for over 4,700 years.Situated in the Levant on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Tyre became the leading city of the Phoenician civilization in 969 BC with the reign of the Tyrian king Hiram I, the city of Tyre alongside its Phoenician homeland are also credited with ...
War has turned Lebanon's idyllic port city of Tyre into a ghost town. Tyre had been considered safe for much of the year in which Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israel had been exchanging fire.
A major tsunami sweeps the coast from Caesarea to Tripoli, Lebanon [11] 633 – affects Emmatha in the Yarmouk Valley [18] and possibly nearby Abila of the Decapolis. [19] 658 – affects Syria and Palestine. [10] Jerusalem is badly damaged according to the chronicles of Michael the Syrian and Theophanes the Confessor. [20]