What the records say
- When
- 1 Jan 1837
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.4
- Where
- Israel
- Coordinates
- 33.00° N, 35.50° E
- Deaths
- 6000
- Intensity mmi
- 10
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
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 destructive Galilee earthquake causes thousands of deaths in Ottoman Syria”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un terremoto de 7,1 mata unas 7000 personas al sur de Siria (Galilea) y destruye la ciudad santa de Safed”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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