2000 BC Earthquake: Ugarit, Syria

Date

2000 BC

Place

Ugarit, Syria

Intensity

10 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

Yes: the tsunami it caused

Epicenter

35.683° N, 35.800° E

Country

Syria

Deaths

Many (about 101 to 1,000)

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.

• December 13, 115, Antakya (Antioch), TurkeyM7.5 · 260,000 deaths · 54 km
• May 29, 525, Antakya (Antioch), Samandag, TurkeyM7 · 250,000 deaths · 69 km
• November 29, 533, Aleppo, Syria130,000 deaths · 139 km
• September 458, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey80,000 deaths · 64 km
• February 13, 1157, Halab (Aleppo), Syria80,000 deaths · 79 km
• 1169, Halab (Aleppo),dimashq (Damascus), Syria80,000 deaths · 139 km
• September 30, 587, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey60,000 deaths · 69 km
• February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaras, Syria, TurkeyM7.8 · 56,697 deaths · $43 billion · 542,461 houses destroyed · 199 km
• 341, Antakya (Antioch), Cyprus (Salamis), Turkey40,000 deaths · 64 km
• 565, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey30,000 deaths · 64 km
• August 13, 1822, Halab,dimashq (Damascus),, Antakya, Syria, Turkey20,000 deaths · 40 km
• 1183, Tripoli, Antakya, Lebanon, Dimashq, Turkey, Syria20,000 deaths · 146 km
• November 29, 528, Antakya (Antioch), TurkeyM7.1 · 4,870 deaths · 69 km
• October 26, 1156, Halab (Aleppo), Malatich, Syria2,000 deaths · 139 km
• 1155, Tarabulus, Antioch, Lebanon, Dimashq, Turkey, Syria2,000 deaths · 146 km

Significant earthquakes of 2000 BCThe 2000s BCRecent earthquakes near here

Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 2.