| Text (with hotlink) | Original Language | Biographical Info | Religion | Date of Composition | Location Composed | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ibn al-Jawzi | Arabic |
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Hanbali Sunni Muslim | 2nd half of the 12th c. CE | Baghdad | Ambraseys (2009)
found a reference to this earthquake in Ibn al-Jauzi, Sedhut. I85awho, he says repeats the same information as as-Suyuti and Ibn al'Imad. Ambraseys (2009) did not provide an excerpt. |
| as-Suyuti | Arabic |
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Sufi Muslim | 15th c. CE | Cairo | States that there was an earthquake in Tiberias in A.H. 239 (12 June 853 - 1 June 854 CE) |
| Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali | Arabic |
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Hanbali Sunni Muslim | 1670 CE | Damascus | Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali reports that during the night, the earth shook at Tiberias. The mountains shook, and then a big rock — eighty cubits by fifty — split open, and so... many people died. |
| Text (with hotlink) | Original Language | Biographical Info | Religion | Date of Composition | Location Composed | Notes |
| Aliases | Arabic |
|---|---|
| Al-Suyuti | |
| As-Suyuti | |
| Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti | |
| Abu 'l-Fadl 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr ibn Muhammad Djalal al_Din al-Khudayri |
| Year | Reference | Corrections | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 June 853 - 1 June 854 CE | A.H.239 | none | Calculated using CHRONOS |
an earthquake shook T'abariyya [Tiberias] to the point that the ground moved [shifted]
| Location (with hotlink) | Status | Intensity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiberias - Introduction | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Tiberias - Mount Berineke | possible | Archaeoseismic Evidence from the church on top of Mount Berineke is undated ( Ferrario et al, 2014) | |
| Tiberias - Gane Hammat | possible | ≥ 8 | End of Stratum III destruction layer - ~9th century CE -
Onn and Weksler-Bdolah (2016) wrote the following about the end of Phase III
A thin layer of ash covered the tombs. Above it were the remains of walls and pebble floors. This layer represents an Early Islamic habitation that dates from the second half of the eighth century CE, probably after the earthquake of 749 CE, until the first half of the ninth century CE, when it reached its peak. A destruction layer, possibly caused by the earthquake that struck in 853 CE [i.e., Tiberias Landslide Quake], sealed the buildings. |
| Al-Muwaqqar | possible | ≥ 8 | 9th century CE earthquake - Najjar (1989) identified two destruction levels
in Area IV at Al-Muwaqqar which he described as follows:
A second architectural phase and occupation was excavated in the Palace. It is obvious from Sq. D5 (W.12), A2 (W.4) and oven (tannur) loc.4, D3 (W.16, 17) and H 14 (W.18, 19) that all these walls belong to a second phase of occupation. It seems that after a partial destruction of the Palace by the earthquake of A.D. 747, the remains of the Palace were used by the local population. The destruction layer was cleared (the walls of the second phase were built directly above the flagstone pavement of the Umayyad Palace) and the Palace and its surrounding area (Sq. H14) were reoccupied. |
| Location (with hotlink) | Status | Intensity | Notes |
| Location (with hotlink) | Status | Minimum PGA (g) | Likely PGA (g) | Likely Intensity1 | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umm el-Qanatir | possible | 0.36 | 0.5 | 8.2 | Archeoseismic evidence suggests Intensity ≥ 8 |
| Fishing Dock Landslide | possible | 0.15 - 0.5 | 0.5 | 8.2 | undated landslide |
| Ein Gev Landslide | possible | 0.37 | ? | ≥7.7 | dated to younger than 5 ka BP |
| Location (with hotlink) | Status | Minimum PGA (g) | Likely PGA (g) | Likely Intensity1 | Comments |
| Location (with hotlink) | Status | Intensity | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Jordan Valley - Dir Hagla Trench | possible to unlikely | ≥ 7 | Reches and Hoexter (1981) dated Event B to 700-900 CE. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dead Sea - Seismite Types | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dead Sea - En Feshka | probable | 5.8 - 7.5 (104 cm.) 5.7 - 7.1 (110.5 cm.) 8.0 - 8.8 (113 cm.) |
Kagan et. al. (2011)
identified several seismites from around this time.
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| Dead Sea - En Gedi | possible | 5.6 - 7.0 | Migowski et. al. (2004) assigned a 859 CE date to a 0.8 cm. thick linear wave (Type 1) seismite at a depth of 169.8 cm. (1.698 m). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dead Sea - Nahal Ze 'elim | unlikely | At site ZA-2, Kagan et. al. (2011) did not find any seismites whose time window encompassed the 850-854 CE Tiberias Landslide Quake. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Araba - Introduction | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Araba - Qasr Tilah | possible | ≥ 7 | Haynes et al. (2006) dated Events II and III to between the 7th and 12th centuries CE. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Araba - Taybeh Trench | unlikely | LeFevre et al. (2018) did not find any seismic events whose time window encompassed the 850-854 CE Tiberias Landslide Quake. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Araba - Qatar Trench | possible | ≥ 7 | Klinger et. al. (2015) dated Event Esupp1 to 925 CE ± 119 (806-1044 CE). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location (with hotlink) | Status | Intensity | Notes |