1927 Jericho earthquake

Earthquake

Vered and Striem (1977) located the earthquake epicenter to be near the Damya Bridge in the Jordan Valley, and close to the city of Jericho. Later research by Avni (1999), located the epicenter to be around 50 km south of this location in the northern part of the Dead Sea. The latter was approved by Zohar & Marco (2012) and by Zohar at al., 2014.

Effects

Mandatory Palestine

Jerusalem

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 rest of the country

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. 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. 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.

File:1927 Earthqua JQ2.jpg|Destruction in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem File:1927 Earthquake OliveMount.jpg|This is the Russian Monastery of Ascension on the Mount of Olives in which three people were killed. On the iron gate on the left, we can read Русская Духовная Миссия ('Russian Ecclesiastical Mission') File:1927 Earthquake Jericho.jpg|The destroyed Winter Palace Hotel in Jericho

References

1. Avni, 1999., p. I in English; Table 2 in Hebrew.
2. (20 March 2015). "Four Hundred Bodies Recovered in Ruins of Palestine Earthquake". Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
3. The lower number is based on the [[Mandate for Palestine. 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.
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7. "Air photo based map of Jericho, 1946, produced by the Royal Engineers of the British Army, showing the location of the hotel".
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11. Kallner-Amiran, D. H.. "A Revised Earthquake Catalog of Palestine".
12. National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS). (1972). "Significant Earthquake Database". [[National Geophysical Data Center]], [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.