Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
551 – 551 Beirut earthquake affects much of the Middle East, possibly largest event in the Levant. [9] [10] Gush Halav is destroyed. 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]
1138 Aleppo earthquake: Delfi Fault Zone: 25: Central Greece: Normal to strike-slip: Denali Fault >500: British Columbia, Canada to Alaska, United States: Dextral strike-slip: Active: 2002 Denali (M7.9) East African Rift ~5,000: East Africa: Rift zone: Active: East Anatolian Fault ~700: Turkey: Sinistral strike-slip: Active
The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault which runs through the Jordan River Valley in the Middle East. The Owen fracture zone along the southeastern boundary of the Arabian plate. The East Anatolian and North Anatolian faults run across much of Turkey and cause large and deadly earthquakes such as the 1999 İzmit earthquake
Two major earthquakes occurred in the Near East on 18 March and 29 May, AD 1068. The two earthquakes are often amalgamated by contemporary sources. [1] The first earthquake had its epicentre somewhere in the northwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula around Tabuk, while the second was most damaging in the city of Ramla in Palestine, some 500 km to the northwest.
Pages in category "Earthquakes in the Middle East" ... 0–9. 1856 Heraklion earthquake This page was last edited on 6 December 2021, at 14:40 (UTC). ...
Map of the Dead Sea Transform showing the main fault segments and motion of the Arabian plate relative to the African plate, [1] from GPS data The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system, also sometimes referred to as the Dead Sea Rift, is a series of faults that run for about 1,000 km from the Marash triple junction (a junction with the East Anatolian Fault in southeastern Turkey) to the ...
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).
A fault zone is a cluster of ... such as the Dead Sea Transform in the Middle East or the Alpine ... earthquake fault zoning act with index to earthquake fault zone ...