July 1063 Earthquake: Tarabulus (Tripolis), Tyre, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon

Date

July 1063

Place

Tarabulus (Tripolis), Tyre, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon

Intensity

8 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

34.300° N, 35.500° E

Country

Lebanon

Deaths

Many (about 101 to 1,000)

Damage

Severe (about $5 to $25 million)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

• February 13, 1157, Halab (Aleppo), Syria80,000 deaths · 115 km
• December 5, 1033, Ramala, Gaza, Nablus, Egypt, Israel, Syria70,000 deaths · 152 km
• September 18, 844, Antakya, Dimashq (Damascus), Turkey, Syria50,000 deaths · 116 km
• May 20, 1202, Southwestern, SyriaM7.6 · 30,000 deaths · 100 km
• November 25, 1759, Damascus, Antioch, Baalbec, Syria, Lebanon-SyriaM7.4 · 30,000 deaths · 113 km
• 1183, Tripoli, Antakya, Lebanon, Dimashq, Turkey, Syria20,000 deaths · 94 km
• August 13, 1822, Halab,dimashq (Damascus),, Antakya, Syria, Turkey20,000 deaths · 194 km
• January 1, 1837, Beirut (Beyrout), Zefat (Safed), Lebanon, IsraelM6.4 · 6,000 deaths · 145 km
• 1155, Tarabulus, Antioch, Lebanon, Dimashq, Turkey, Syria2,000 deaths · 94 km
• October 30, 1759, Zefat (Safed), IsraelM6.6 · 2,000 deaths · 145 km
• February 26, 1796, Al-Ladhiqiyah (Latakia), Syria1,500 deaths · 104 km
• March 16, 1956, Litani, LebanonM5.8 · 148 deaths · 133 km
• 1339, Tarabulus (Tripolis), Lebanon60 deaths · 0 km
• October 28, 1354, Hamah (Hama),hims (Hums),balabakk, Syria24 deaths · 121 km
• August 12, 2024, Syria, LebanonM5.2 · 2 deaths · 166 km

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