Ibn al‑ʿImād wrote that there were three hours of heavy shaking in Damascus, destroying houses, displacing huge stones, breaking many windows of the souks, and killing many people under the debris. He also reported that many terraces and a quarter of the minaret of the Great Umayyad Mosque of Damascus collapsed. A village in al-Ghūṭah, near Damascus, was said to have been overturned with only one survivor. The same earthquake was reported to have been severe in Antioch and Mosul, where more than 2,000 houses collapsed and 20,000 people were said to have perished. The date of the earthquake was given as A.H. 233 (17 August 847 CE – 4 August 848 CE).