Magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Lebanon-Syria: Baalbec; Syria: Damascus, Antioch · about 30,000 deaths
Natural disaster
1759 Baalbec earthquake
Magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Lebanon-Syria: Baalbec; Syria: Damascus, Antioch · about 30,000 deaths
- 25 November 1759
- Middle East
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