Located at the foot of Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine's Monastery In Sinai was built between 548 and 565 CE, and is the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery (wikipedia citing El Din (1998), Leroy and P. Collin (2004), and a defunct website). The site also hold's the world's oldest continually operating library (wikipedia citing the Sinai Palimpsests Project).

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Effect	Location	Image(s)	Description
7 shocks	St. Catherine's Monastery and vicinity		"at that evening seven great and terrible earthquakes happened, and the Barbarians got in fear and left, and after that they asked nothing more" - Patriarch Nektarios of Jerusalem

Effect	Location	Image(s)	Description
Rockfalls Collapsed Walls Roof Collapse Inhabitants frightened	St. Catherine's Monastery and vicinity		"On Monday [AD] 30 April of 1312 at sunset a small earthquake happened, and another one at midnight; at dawn of Tuesday 1 May another great and terrible earthquake occurred; and because of the rumble and the shaking of the Mountains and of the rocks throwing down from the Mountains, it looked like that the entire World would submerge. The northern and eastern walls as well as two towers of the Monastery pulled down; and some of the cells collapsed completely but in others only the roofs collapsed. The earthquakes did not finish, on the contrary they were coming one after the other. Then, the Monks got in fear and with cries and lamentations left to the wine-arbor, where the Cemetery is situated, for they were afraid of the complete ruination of the Monastery, since the walls were so much damaged as it was possible for a loaded animal to pass through." - Patriarch Nektarios of Jerusalem

Effect	Location	Image(s)	Description
Displaced Wall	St. Catherine's Monastery		Ambraseys (2009) reports that a near-contemporary source described damage to a fortification wall of St Catherine’s monastery in Sinai due to an earthquake in 1839 CE.

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Effect	Location	Image(s)	Description	Intensity
7 shocks (Frightens many ?)	St. Catherine's Monastery and vicinity		"at that evening seven great and terrible earthquakes happened, and the Barbarians got in fear and left, and after that they asked nothing more" - Patriarch Nektarios of Jerusalem	VI+

The archeoseismic evidence requires a minimum Intensity of VI (6).

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  Rodríguez-Pascua et al (2013)
  Effects from Rodríguez-Pascua et al (2013: 221-224)
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  Synoptic Table of ESI 2007 Intensity Degrees
  
  Accuracy improves in higher degrees, especially VIII–XII.
  
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  Michetti et al. (2007)
  Intensity Degrees from Michetti et al. (2007)
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Effect	Location	Image(s)	Description	Intensity
Rockfalls Collapsed Walls Roof Collapse (due to displaced walls) Inhabitants frightened	St. Catherine's Monastery and vicinity		"On Monday [AD] 30 April of 1312 at sunset a small earthquake happened, and another one at midnight; at dawn of Tuesday 1 May another great and terrible earthquake occurred; and because of the rumble and the shaking of the Mountains and of the rocks throwing down from the Mountains, it looked like that the entire World would submerge. The northern and eastern walls as well as two towers of the Monastery pulled down; and some of the cells collapsed completely but in others only the roofs collapsed. The earthquakes did not finish, on the contrary they were coming one after the other. Then, the Monks got in fear and with cries and lamentations left to the wine-arbor, where the Cemetery is situated, for they were afraid of the complete ruination of the Monastery, since the walls were so much damaged as it was possible for a loaded animal to pass through." - Patriarch Nektarios of Jerusalem	VI+ VIII+ VII+ VII+

The archeoseismic evidence requires a minimum Intensity of VIII (8).

• Earthquake Archeological   
  Earthquake Archeological Effects Chart
  
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  Rodríguez-Pascua et al (2013)
  Effects from Rodríguez-Pascua et al (2013: 221-224)

Effect	Location	Image(s)	Description	Intensity
Displaced Wall	St. Catherine's Monastery		Ambraseys (2009) reports that a near-contemporary source described damage to a fortification wall of St Catherine’s monastery in Sinai due to an earthquake in 1839 CE.	VII+

The archeoseismic evidence requires a minimum Intensity of VII (7) when using the Earthquake Archeological Effects chart of Rodríguez-Pascua et al (2013: 221-224).