What the records say
- When
- 1 Jan 1837
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 33.00° N, 35.50° E
- Deaths
- 6000
- Source quake magnitude
- 6.4
- Runups
- 0
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1837 Galilee earthquake
1837 earthquake in Galilee
The Galilee earthquake of 1837, often called the Safed earthquake, shook the Galilee on January 1 and is one of a number of moderate to large events that have occurred along the Dead Sea Transform fault system that marks the boundary of two tectonic plates; the African plate on the west and the Arabian plate on the east.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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