Bar Hebraeus misdated the earthquake to A.H. 597 (12 Oct. 1200 – 30 Sept. 1201 CE). He wrote that the event “destroyed many buildings and high walls” in Damascus, Emesa, Hamath, Tripoli, Tyre, Akko, and Shamrin (Samaria), “reached Beth Rhomaye,” but “was not violent in the East.”