An earthquake is reported to have struck the city of Tiberias during the night. According to historical traditions preserved in later Arabic chronicles, the shock was strong enough that the ground was perceived to shift, the surrounding mountains shook, and a landslide or rockslide caused fatalities. as-Suyūṭī records that "an earthquake shook T'abariyya [Tiberias] to the point that the ground moved [shifted]." A more detailed description is preserved by Ibn al-ʿImād, who writes that "during the night, the earth shook at Tiberias." He further reports that "the mountains shook, and then a big rock — eighty cubits by fifty [roughly 40 x 25 m] — split open." This description suggests that the shaking triggered a large rockfall or landslide in the mountainous terrain surrounding the city, an event that reportedly caused numerous casualties, as Ibn al-ʿImād notes that "many people died." A similar report is also recorded by the earlier source Ibn al-Jauzi in Sedhut I85a, where, according to Ambraseys (2009), the same information appears as that preserved by as-Suyūṭī and Ibn al-ʿImād.