What the records say
- When
- 8 Apr 859
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Where
- Turkey
- Coordinates
- 36.00° N, 36.00° E
- Intensity mmi
- 11
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
859 Syrian coast earthquake
Earthquake affected the Syrian coast in 859/860
The 859 Syrian coast earthquake affected the Mediterranean coast of Syria in the year 859 or 860 CE. It caused almost the complete destruction of Latakia and Jableh, major damage at Antioch and led to many deaths.
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2 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 “859 Syrian coast earthquake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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