- Collapsed Walls
- Fatalities (due to collapsed walls)
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- "Meanwhile there was an earthquake at Damascus
'which lasted for days and shook her like leaves on trees'.
In Beit Qoubayê (?), there was a fortress that had been
built at great expense by
Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf.
It was overthrown from top to bottom and more than 80
people suffocated inside. Many in the city itself
perished. Myriads of people died in
Ghautah
and
Dareya.
Bosrah,
Nawa,
Der'at, and
Ba'albek
were swallowed up completely." –
Michael the Syrian
- "On the insurrections and ruin which happened at this time in the West, and the fall of the city of
Ghouta.
For in the year 1060 of the Greeks, 134 of the Arabs, great upheaval afflicted the world.
And there was an earthquake at Damascus and in the
whole surrounding area, which lasted for days, and in which the
area trembled and was shaken. It also [affected] Beth Cubaye,
a citadel which had been built by Hagag the son of Joseph
with much effort and at great expense. This was overturned and
was destroyed down to its foundations, and more than eighty
people were killed and buried in the middle of it. And in the
same city many people died. Likewise in Gutah [a suburb] of
Dareya, countless people died in this earthquake. Bosra and
Neve (sic.) were razed to their foundations. And a great part of
Baalbek collapsed, and the springs of water there became like
blood." –
Chronicon Ad Annum 1234
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