Ibn al-Dawadari dated the earthquake to Shaʿbān A.H. 597, although this year is incorrect. When corrected to Shaʿbān A.H. 598, the corresponding period of 26 April – 24 May 1202 CE includes the date of the earthquake(s) on 20 May 1202 CE (calculated using CHRONOS). Ibn al-Dawadari recorded that “there was a great earthquake” which extended from Upper Egypt to Syria and the coast. In Egypt, buildings collapsed and many people “disappeared under the rubble.” Nablus was reported to have been destroyed with 30,000 dead, leaving only the walls of the Sumrah Quarter standing. Akko and Tyre were also destroyed, along with the fortresses along the coast, while “Banyas and Hunayn suffered as well.” He added that a landslide killed people traveling from Baalbek and that most of the citadel there was destroyed. In Damascus, there was damage to the Umayyad Mosque, “most of al-Kallasah, and the Nuri Hospital.” Homs, Hama, and Aleppo were likewise affected. The earthquake was said to have reached Cyprus, where a tsunami “hurled ships onto shore, breaking up a number of them.” It also extended to Akhlat, Armenia, Azerbaijan, al-Jazirah, and Ajam. In total, “thousands or 100,000 perished under the rubble.”