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No physical tsunamogenic evidence from the 749 CE Sabbatical Year Quakes has been conclusively identified in the Dead Sea. However, Michael the Syrian and Chronicon Ad Annum 1234 both report that a fortress in Moab, inhabited by Yemenite Arabs, was displaced by approximately 3 miles by a seismic sea wave. There is some ambiguity regarding the location of this event (it may instead refer to the Sea of Galilee), but the most probable interpretation places it along the eastern shores of the Dead Sea. The accounts preserved by Michael the Syrian and Chronicon Ad Annum 1234 may derive from the lost chronicle of Theophilus of Edessa.

By Jefferson Williams