Natural Disasters in Syria - Earthquakes in Syria, 1138 Aleppo Earthquake, 1202 Syria Earthquake, 526 Antioch Earthquake, Golan Earthquake of 749 (Paperback)

Chapters: Earthquakes in Syria, 1138 Aleppo Earthquake, 1202 Syria Earthquake, 526 Antioch Earthquake, Golan Earthquake of 749. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 1138 Aleppo earthquake - Aleppo is located along the northern part of the Dead Sea Transform system of geologic faults, which is a plate boundary separating the Arabian plate from the African plate. The earthquake was the beginning of the first of two intense sequences of earthquakes in the region: October 1138 to June 1139 and a much more intense series from September 1156 to May 1159. The first sequence affected areas around Aleppo and the western part of the region of Edessa (modern anlurfa, Turkey). During the second an area encompassing north-western Syria, northern Lebanon and the region of Antioch (modern Antakya, in southern Turkey) was subject to devastating quakes. In the mid-twelfth century, northern Syria was a war-ravaged land. The Crusader states set up by Western Europeans, such as the Principality of Antioch, were in a state of constant armed conflict with the Muslim states of Northern Syria and the Jazeerah, principally Aleppo and Mosul. Street in the Christian Quarter of AleppoA contemporary chronicler in Damascus, Ibn al-Qalanisi, recorded the main quake on Wednesday, 11 October 1138. He wrote that it was preceded by an initial quake on 10 October and there were aftershocks on the evening of 20 October, on 25 October, on the night of 30 October-1 November, and finishing with another in the early morning of 3 November. However, Kemal al-Din, an author writing later recorded only one earthquake on 1920 October, which disagrees with al Qalanisi's account. Given that al Qalanisi was writing as the earthquakes occurred and that accounts from other historians support a 10 ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6135929