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991 Damascus earthquake

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The historians Pierre Vattier(17th century) and Marcello Bonito (17th century) mention the earthquake, but not the tsunami.
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Data from investigation of seismic Sea waves events in the Eastern Mediterranean from 500 to 1000 A.D.
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and died. The village of Beglabec was reportedly engulfed due to the earthquake.
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Four thousand years of seismicity along the Dead Sea Rift
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Index

Damascus
Muharram
Hijri year
George Elmacin
ruins
aftershocks
Safar
Hijri year
geophysicist
August Heinrich Sieberg
tsunami
flooded
region
Syria
Data from investigation of seismic Sea waves events in the Eastern Mediterranean from 500 to 1000 A.D.
"Four thousand years of seismicity along the Dead Sea Rift"
Bibcode
1991JGR....9620195B
doi
10.1029/91JB01936





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