Romuald of Salerno
wrote that
there was an earthquake in Syria so great that
Mamistra and Marais
[Marash] were razed to the
ground, and several other cities and fort-towns fell, their men
crushed
. Romuald added that
part of Antioch and even
Jerusalem collapsed to the ground
.
He dated the earthquake to the month of December, before
Christmas, in 1115 CE, but also to the 8th indiction, which would
place it in December 1114 CE.
Guidoboni and Comastri (2005)
note that Romuald of Salerno, like other secondary Latin sources,
tend to give wrong dates for this earthquake
.
Ambraseys (2009) placed this
account from Romuald in his entry for an earthquake on 29 November 1114 CE
and expressed doubts about the reported geographical extent of damage,
particularly about
the damage extending to Jerusalem
.
He wrote that
this damage [in Jerusalem] might be dismissed as
gross exaggeration, perhaps to implicate all the Crusader states in the sins that brought on the earthquake
.
However,
it is unlikely that the earthquake extended this far … since Fulcher was probably living in Jerusalem when the earthquake happened, but does not even say that it was felt there
.