What the records say
- When
- 30 Oct 1759
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.6
- Where
- Israel
- Coordinates
- 33.00° N, 35.50° E
- Deaths
- 2000
- Intensity mmi
- 9
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1759 Near East earthquakes
Series of earthquakes in Levant
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. The ruins of Baalbek, a settlement in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon east of the Litani River, were badly damaged.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Near East earthquakes of 1759: The first event in an earthquake doublet occurs to the north of the Sea of Galilee”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “dos terremotos de 6,6 y 7,4, respectivamente, dejan un saldo de 20 000 muertos en la zona del Levante”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page