Chronicon Ad Annum 1234 records an earthquake that lasted for several days and shook Damascus and the surrounding region. Innumerable people died in nearby Ghuta and Darayya. Bostra and Nawa were said to have been completely swallowed up. Much of Baalbek collapsed, and its water sources turned to blood. At Beth Qubayeh (location unknown), a palace collapsed, killing eight hundred people, and many more perished in the surrounding settlement.

A great seismic sea wave was described that destroyed many cities along an unnamed coast. In Balqaʾ or Moab, a similar wave was said to have moved a palace three miles. Tiberias was destroyed except for a single house; thirty synagogues collapsed, and structures around a healing spring were ruined. The river beside a spring near Jericho was displaced six miles, and buildings along its banks collapsed. In Mabbug, widespread destruction occurred and many people died. One church collapsed, killing everyone inside, and the city walls fell to their foundations.

The author of the Chronicon Ad Annum 1234 notes that his source document contained many additional descriptions of seismic effects that were not included in his own account.