Andrea Dandolo
wrote about an earthquake in two separate passages, divided by
two sentences. In the first account, he states that
the East was shaken by so tremendous an earthquake that it
completely destroyed buildings, especially in
Cilicia, at
Mamistra, and all the
fortresses in the surrounding area, and in some places nothing
was left standing
, adding that
men wandered through the fields, fearing that they would be
swallowed up by the earth
. No specific date was provided for
this first earthquake.
In the second passage, Dandolo reports that
during the night of the Ides of November [13 November], in the
suburbs of Antioch, the earth swallowed up many towers and the
houses beside them, together with their inhabitants
.
Guidoboni and Comastri (2005)
suggest that Dandolo drew on
Marino Sanudo the Elder
for the first account, and on
Abbot Anselm of Gembloux
for the second, as the phrasing is nearly identical—perhaps even
verbatim. They propose that Dandolo mistakenly treated these as
two separate events, when in fact both descriptions refer to the
same earthquake of 13 November 1114 CE.
Ambraseys (2009) likewise dates
Dandolo’s account to 13 November 1114 CE.