Ibn al-Jawzi, citing a secondhand report from a letter that arrived in Baghdad on 17 December 1114 CE, describes an earthquake that collapsed thirteen towers and the city walls of al-Ruha (Şanlıurfa, ancient Edessa), damaged sections of the walls and numerous houses in Harran, destroyed about one hundred houses and half of the citadel at Balis, and caused collapses in Sumaysa (Samosata).

The time and date of the earthquake are given as the night of Sunday, 18 Jumada II, A.H. 508, corresponding to Thursday, 19 November 1114 CE. The disagreement between the stated day and date likely reflects a scribal or transmission error, and the correct date is probably the night of Sunday, 29 November 1114 CE, consistent with other contemporary accounts.