A.H. 460
According to what Ibn al-Athir, and Ibn al-Jawzi wrote, and the wording from them [JW: but not the translation],
there was an earthquake in Palestine and elsewhere, which destroyed fifteen thousand people in Ramla,
and two terraces fell from the mosque of the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and
the land split for treasures of money. The Rock of Beit Al-Maqdis [under the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem] split open but
then it came back and rejoined. The sea receded a day’s walk from the coast and became like land.
People entered this land to gather things but the sea returned and destroyed many of them. This earthquake
reached Al-Rahbah and Al-Kufa.
