Fragmenta Historica Tusculana provides both a date, 6 July, and a year – 551 CE. It recounts that “a great and terrible earthquake happened in all the Eastern region, that is, in Arabia, the whole of Palestine, and in the land of Mesopotamia and of Antiochia, and many cities of the Phoenician littoral collapsed, viz. Tyre, Sidon, Berytus, Tripolis, Biblus (sic), and Botrys, and other cities; and of the surrounding villages 101 fell, and multitudes of men were crushed in these cities.” It also reports a rockslide in Botrys.