Ambraseys and Melville (1988:186) state that Abu'l-Fada'il of Hamah “has a brief notice of the shock under 597 H [12 Oct. 1200 – 30 Sept. 1201 CE]" adding that "it is of interest that he does not refer to the shock in Hamah, but mentions that it destroyed most of the towns belonging to the ‘Franks’.”