Earthquake — Syria: Southwestern

When

20 May 1202

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.6

Where

Syria

Coordinates

33.50° N, 36.00° E

Deaths

30000

Intensity mmi

11

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Earthquake affecting the Levant

The 1202 Syria earthquake struck at about dawn on 20 May 1202 with an epicenter in southwestern Syria. The earthquake is estimated to have killed around 30,000 people. It was felt over an extensive area, from Sicily to Mesopotamia and Anatolia to upper Egypt, mostly affecting the Ayyubid Sultanate and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The cities of Tyre, Acre and Nablus were heavily 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 “An earthquake shakes the Levant from Egypt to northern Iraq, causing severe damage in Palestine, Lebanon and western Syria”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Siria se registra un terremoto de 7,6, que deja un saldo de entre 30.000 y 60.000”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Tsunami — Southwestern Syria20 May 1202 · Tsunami