Bar Hebraeus repeated a story written by Michael the Syrian, but dated it a year or two later than Michael. Bar Hebraeus wrote that in A.G. 1451 (1 October 1139 to 30 September 1140 CE), the earth was rent in the country of Calonicus (Raqqa), and it swallowed up forty horsemen with their horses, and only one who had turned aside to make water was saved. And the sound of the groans of men and their horses came up for a long time. Like Michael, Bar Hebraeus did not state that this event was caused by or related to an earthquake.