English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Galilee earthquake of 1837
The
Galilee earthquake of 1837
, often called the
Safed earthquake
, shook the
Galilee
on January 1 and is one of a number of moderate to large events that have occurred along the
Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system
that marks the boundary of two tectonic plates; the
African Plate
on the west and the
Arabian Plate
on the east. Intensity assessments for the event were VIII (
Damaging
) on the
Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale
and VIII (
Heavily damaging
) on the
European Macroseismic Scale
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License