What the records say
- When
- 11 Jul 1927
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.3
- Where
- Israel
- Coordinates
- 32.00° N, 35.50° E
- Deaths
- 268
- Depth km
- 33
3 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 1927 Jericho earthquake strikes Palestine, killing around 300 people; it is the largest ever recorded in this part of the Middle East”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la ciudad palestina de Jericó un devastador terremoto de 6,3 deja 287 fallecidos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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