Bilad al-Sham, Abbasid Caliphate (modern Lebanon and Syria)
Max. intensity
MMI VIII (Severe)[2]
Casualties
70,000
The 847 Damascus earthquake occurred (probably on 24 November) 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.[2] There were an estimated 20,000 casualties in Antioch according to the 13th-century historian and writer Al-Dhahabi, and 50,000 in Mosul. It is thought to be one of the most powerful earthquakes along the Dead Sea Transform.[1]
The Dead Sea Transform fault and associated structures in Lebanon and southern Syria
^ abGrünthal G.; Hakimhashemi A.; Schelle H.; Bosse C.; Wahlström R. (2009). "The long-term temporal behaviour of the seismicity of the Dead Sea Fault Zone and its implication for time-dependent seismic hazard assessments". Scientific Technical Report STR09/09. Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ. p. 18. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
^ abcSbeinati, Mohamed Reda; Darawcheh, Ryad; Mouty, Mikhail (June 2005). "The historical earthquakes of Syria: an analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D." (PDF). Annals of Geophysics. 48 (3): 365. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
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