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1995 – 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake (also known as Nuweiba earthquake) occurred on November 22 at 06:15 local time (04:15 UTC) and registered 7.3 on the M w scale. 2023 – 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes hit southern Turkey near the border with Syria, killing more than 50,000 people as of February 26, and is said to double, in Turkey and Syria.
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).
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 ...
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Detailed satellite images give a bird’s-eye view Turkish towns before and after the earthquakes hit, and of relief efforts. Satellite images show shocking destruction caused by Turkey ...
The first 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the border region between Turkey and Syria, an area with a population of 13.5 million. The site of the fault line before the quake, taken on 6 September 2019 ...
Pages in category "Earthquakes in the Levant" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... 847 Damascus earthquake; 1033 Jordan Valley earthquake;
The term Levant appears in English in 1497, and originally meant 'the East' or 'Mediterranean lands east of Italy'. [23] It is borrowed from the French levant 'rising', referring to the rising of the sun in the east, [23] or the point where the sun rises. [24] The phrase is ultimately from the Latin word levare, meaning 'lift, raise'.