Earthquake — Syria: Dimashq (Damascus)

When

24 Nov 847

Kind

Earthquake

Where

Syria

Coordinates

33.50° N, 36.30° E

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Earthquake affecting Syria and Lebanon

The 847 Damascus earthquake occurred in AD 847. Recent scholarship suggests that the earthquake was part of a multiple earthquake stretching from Damascus to the south, to Antioch in the north and to Mosul in the east. There were an estimated 20,000 casualties in Antioch according to the 13th-century historian and writer Al-Dhahabi, and 50,000 in Mosul.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “847 Şam depremi: Suriye'de Şam ve çevresinde meydana gelen depremde tahmini 70.000 kişi öldü”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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