A locally devastating earthquake rocked the city of Cairo in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Egypt) on 18 October 1754. Major damage occurred in the city, and an estimated 40,000 people were killed. Nicholas Ambraseys, a Greek seismologist, estimated the felt area magnitude (Mfa) at 6.6 and assigned a maximum intensity of VII–IX (Very strong–Violent).[2]
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^Nicholas Ambraseys; Robert D. Adams (1994). The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: A Historical Review. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511524912. ISBN 9780511524912.
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