1927 Jericho earthquake

Earthquake in Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan 1927 Jericho earthquake Israel 1927-07-11 13:04:10 909378 iscgem909378 1927 7 11 15:04:10 6.3 w y 15 km on Mandatory Palestine Transjordan 31.6 N 35.4 E inline, title 9 Zohar Marco 2012 9 285–500 Serious damage to Jericho, Ramla, Tiberias, Nablus and Jerusalem The 1927 Jericho earthquake was a devastating event that shook Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan on July 11 at 15:04 local time 13:04 UTC. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the northern area of the Dead Sea. The cities of Jerusalem, Jericho, Ramla, Tiberias, and Nablus were heavily damaged, and between 285Avni, 1999., p. I in English; Table 2 in Hebrew. and 40020 March 2015 Four Hundred Bodies Recovered in Ruins of Palestine Earthquake https://www.jta.org/archive/four-hundred-bodies-recovered-in-ruins-of-palestine-earthquake 30 June 2024 Jewish Telegraphic Agency people were estimated to have been killed.The lower number is based on the Mandate government's casualty count, which compiled extensive data on casualties and structures damaged in the earthquake. The higher number is based on a secondary or tertiary source, written many years after the earthquake. Earthquake In 1977, Vered and Striem placed the earthquake's epicenter near the Damya Bridge in the Jordan Valley and close to the city of Jericho. Later research by Avni, published in 1993, placed the epicenter around 50 km south of this location in the northern part of the Dead Sea.http://zadok.org/research/1927/new-epicenter.html A new estimate for the epicenter of the Jericho earthquake of 11 July 1927 1993 Avi Shapira Ron Avni Amos Nur Israel Journal of Earth Sciences Israel Geological Society 42 93–96 The latter was approved by Zohar and Marco in 2012 and by Zohar et al., in 2014. Effects Mandatory Palestine The death toll in Jerusalem included more than 130 people and around 450 were injured. About 300 houses collapsed or were severely damaged to the point of not being usable. The earthquake also caused heavy damage to the domes of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the al-Aqsa Mosque. The earthquake was especially severe in Nablus, where it destroyed around 300 buildings, including the Mosque of Victory and the historic parts of the Great Mosque of Nablus.Damage Caused By Landslides During the Earthquakes of 1837 and 1927 in the Galilee Region Daniel Wachs Dov Levitte http://zadok.org/research/1927/landslides.html June 1978 Geological Survey of Israel The death toll in Nablus included more than 150 people and around 250 were injured. In Jericho, a number of houses collapsed, including several relatively new hotels. In one of the hotels, three female tourists from India were killed.Duff, Douglas V. (1934) Sword for Hire. The Saga of a Modern Free-Companion. John Murray, London. 1st Edition. pp.219–227 Ramla and Tiberias were also heavily damaged. Emirate of Transjordan The most affected city in Transjordan was Salt in which 80 people were killed. In the rest of Transjordan another 20 people were killed. See also Dead Sea Transform List of earthquakes in 1927 List of earthquakes in the Levant Notes and references The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: A Historical Review 2005 N. N. Ambraseys Nicholas Ambraseys R. D. Melville R. D. Adams Cambridge University Press 978-0521020251 122 Ambraseys N. N. Engineering seismology: Part I Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics 17 1 1988 0098-8847 10.1002/eqe.4290170101 1988EESD...17....1A Table II ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009) http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscgem/index.php ISC 2015 International Seismological Centre Version 2.0 http://zadok.org/research/1927/damage.html A Revised Earthquake Catalog of Palestine D. H. Kallner-Amiran July 8, 2012 Significant Earthquake Database https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20060929000601/http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1 dead September 29, 2006 National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) 1972 National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA 10.7289/V5TD9V7K Sources Avni, R.; (1999), 1927 Jericho earthquake - Comprehensive Macroseismic Analysis Based on Contemporary Sources. Theis Submitted to the Senat of Ben-Gurion University of the Nehev, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requierments for the Degree of Ph.D. (in Hebrew, Abstract in English) Erroneous interpretation of historical documents related to the epicenter of the 1927 Jericho earthquake in the Holy Land http://www.relemr-merc.org/Other_information/AviDoc/fulltext.pdf R. Avni D. Bowman A. Shapira A. Nur Journal of Seismology 6 Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002 6 469–476 2002JSeis...6..469A 10.1023/A:1021191824396 129021633 2012-07-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20090107030259/http://www.relemr-merc.org/Other_information/AviDoc/fulltext.pdf 2009-01-07 dead Re-estimating the epicenter of the 1927 Jericho earthquake using spatial distribution of intensity data http://www.tau.ac.il/~shmulikm/Publications/Zohar_&_Marco-1927_earthquake_epicenter.pdf M. Zohar S. Marco 2012 Journal of Applied Geophysics Elsevier 82 19–29 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2012.03.004 2012JAG....82...19Z https://web.archive.org/web/20131204044513/http://www.tau.ac.il/~shmulikm/Publications/Zohar_&_Marco-1927_earthquake_epicenter.pdf 4 December 2013 Earthquake Damage and Repair: New Evidence from Jerusalem on the 1927 Jericho Earthquake M. Zohar R. Rubin A. Salamon 2014 Seismological Research Letters Seismological Society of America 85 4 912–922 10.1785/0220140009 2014SeiRL..85..912Z Further reading Al-Homoud Azm S. Fandi Amrat Abdel-Qader Comparison Between Recorded and Derived Horizontal Peak Ground Accelerations in Jordan Natural Hazards 17 2 1998 10.1023/A:1008040722121 101–115 External links Jerusalem Hit By Earth Jars – published in the Prescott Evening Courier on July 11, 1927 104 Quake Toll In Holy Land – published in the Youngstown Vindicator on July 12, 1927 https://archive.today/20130124154826/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0KNQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wSEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5632,4456700 300 reported Toll of Quake el – published in the Milwaukee Journal on July 12, 1927 Quake Reports From Palestine Yet Fragmentary – published in Newspapers on July 14, 1927 909378 Category:Earthquakes in the Levant Category:Earthquakes in Israel Category:Earthquakes in Palestine Jericho earthquake, 1927 Category:1927 in Mandatory Palestine Category:1927 in Transjordan Category:July 1927 in Asia Category:1927 disasters in Asia Category:History of Jericho