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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).
November 25 – Near East earthquakes of 1759: The second and stronger event in an earthquake doublet occurs to the east of Beirut, with a surface wave magnitude of 7.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.
1752 – coast of Syria and Palestine hit by strong earthquake [11] 1759 – Near East earthquakes of 1759, likely among the strongest historical earthquakes in the region. [1] 1796 – 1796 Latakia earthquake kills about 1,500 people. [26] 1822 – 1822 Aleppo earthquake; 1834 – 1834 Jerusalem earthquake: Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron are ...
Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings — later followed by seismotomography imaging technique, [1] observations using space satellites from outer space, [2] artificial intelligence (AI)-based earthquake warning systems [3] — they rely mainly ...
Californians waking up to the news that an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale rattled buildings and nerves in New Jersey and across much of the East Coast Friday morning, but caused no ...
A small earthquake that startled residents near Richmond, Virginia, this week is a reminder that the East Coast is not exempt from the dangers of temblors.. The 2.8 quake hit about 6 miles ...
An unusual East Coast earthquake shook millions of people from New York and Philadelphia skyscrapers to rural New England on Friday, causing no widespread damage but startling an area unaccustomed ...
1759 Near East earthquakes; C. 1755 Cape Ann earthquake; 1751 Concepción earthquake This page was last edited on 13 March 2020, at 02:04 (UTC). Text is available ...