348 Earthquake: Bayrut (Berouth), Lebanon
An earthquake struck Bayrut (Berouth), Lebanon in 348. It caused a tsunami.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- 348
- Place
- Bayrut (Berouth), Lebanon
- Intensity
- IX, violent shaking, on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- Yes: the tsunami it caused
- Epicenter
- 33.900° N, 35.500° E
- Country
- Lebanon
- Region
- Middle East
The toll
- 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.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Sources NCEI cites
The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.
- #521 Mallet, Robert (1853). Catalogue of Recorded Earthquakes from 1606 B.C. to A.D. 1850, Part I, 1606 B.C. to 1755 A.D. Report of the 22nd Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Hull, Sept., 1853, John Murray, London, p. 1-176.
- #1222 Alsinawi, S.A., S.G. Baban, and A.S. Issa (1985). Historical seismicity of the Arab region. IASPEI/UNESCO Working Group on Historical Seismograms and Earthquakes, August 27-28, 1985, Tokyo; Preliminary Proceedings, p. 59-84.
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- February 13, 1157, Halab (Aleppo), Syria
- December 5, 1033, Ramala, Gaza, Nablus, Egypt, Israel, Syria
- September 18, 844, Antakya, Dimashq (Damascus), Turkey, Syria
- May 20, 1202, Southwestern, Syria
- November 25, 1759, Damascus, Antioch, Baalbec, Syria, Lebanon-Syria
- 1183, Tripoli, Antakya, Lebanon, Dimashq, Turkey, Syria
- January 1, 1837, Beirut (Beyrout), Zefat (Safed), Lebanon, Israel
- October 30, 1759, Zefat (Safed), Israel
- 1155, Tarabulus, Antioch, Lebanon, Dimashq, Turkey, Syria
- February 26, 1796, Al-Ladhiqiyah (Latakia), Syria
- March 16, 1956, Litani, Lebanon
- 1339, Tarabulus (Tripolis), Lebanon
- October 28, 1354, Hamah (Hama),hims (Hums),balabakk, Syria
- March 29, 1903, Nabulus, Israel
- August 12, 2024, Syria, Lebanon
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Sources
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 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 86.