Pair of severe earthquakes that affected the Syria Palaestina province of the Roman Empire
The Galilee earthquake of 363 was a pair of severe earthquakes that shook the
Galilee and nearby regions on May 18 and 19.
[3] The maximum perceived intensity for the events was estimated to be X
[4] (Very destructive ) on the
European macroseismic scale . The earthquakes occurred on the portion of the
Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system between the
Dead Sea and the
Gulf of Aqaba .
Impact
Remains of the
Nabratein synagogue , 2005
Sepphoris , north-northwest of
Nazareth , was severely damaged.
Nabratein and the
Nabratein synagogue (northeast of
Safed ) were destroyed.
[5] The earthquake may have been responsible for the failure of the plan to rebuild the
Temple in Jerusalem with the permission of the Emperor
Julian .
[6]
Petra , in what is now
Jordan , was fatally
damaged .
See also
References
^ Ferry, Matthieu; Meghraoui, Mustapha; Abou Karaki, Najib; Al-Taj, Masdouq; Khalil, Lutfi (2011).
"Episodic behavior of the Jordan Valley section of the Dead Sea fault inferred from a 14-ka-long integrated catalog of large earthquakes" . Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America . 101 (1).
Seismological Society of America : 48.
Bibcode :
2011BuSSA.101...39F .
doi :
10.1785/0120100097 . Archived from
the original on 2012-11-30.
^ Sbeinati, Mohamed Reda; Darawcheh, Ryad; Mouty, Mikhail (June 2005),
"The historical earthquakes of Syria – an analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D." (PDF) , Annals of Geophysics , 48 (3), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia: 407
^ Safrai, Zeev (1998). Missing Century: Palestine in the Fifth Century: Growth and Decline . Peeters Publishers. pp. 86–87.
ISBN
978-9068319859 .
^ Sbeinati, Mohamed Reda; Darawcheh, Ryad; Mouty, Mikhail; 2005. "
The historical earthquakes of Syria – an analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D. " (PDF), Annals of Geophysics , Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, 48 p. 386
^
^
"Jewish History Sourcebook: Julian and the Jews 361–363 CE" .
Fordham University .
Sources
Niemi, Tina M. (2009),
Paleoseismology and archaeoseismology of sites in Aqaba and Petra, Jordan: Field guidebook (PDF) , Geological Survey of Israel, pp. 119–124, archived from
the original (PDF) on 2013-09-29
Russell, Kenneth W. (1980), "The Earthquake of May 19, A. D. 363",
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research , 238 (238),
American Schools of Oriental Research : 47–64,
doi :
10.2307/1356515 ,
JSTOR
1356515 ,
S2CID
163936058
External links
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