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|magnitude = Oct 30, 6.6 Ms Nov 25, 7.4 Ms |duration = Oct 30, ~ 1 minute Nov 25, ~ 2 minutes 〔 |depth = |location = Oct 30, Nov 25, |countries affected = Lebanon Syria |tsunami = |aftershocks = 3 months 〔 |casualties = 2000 〔 – 20,000 }} The Near East earthquakes of 1759 was a series of devastating earthquakes that shook a large portion of the Levant in October and November of that year. This geographical crossroads in the Eastern Mediterranean includes portions of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Israel. The ruins of Baalbek, a settlement in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon east of the Litani River, were badly damaged. These events, along with the earlier 1202 Syria earthquake, are likely the strongest historical earthquakes in the region.〔 ==Tectonic setting== The Levant fault zone is a long transform fault that runs from the northern end of the Red Sea along the Jordan Rift Valley to the Taurus Mountains complex in southern Turkey. The left-lateral fault zone marks the boundary of the Arabian Plate and the Sinai-Levantine block and has produced pull-apart basins that form the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee. The Levant fault system consists of multiple parallel faults with the dominant features being the Yammouneh and Rachaiya faults. The fault strand that produced these earthquakes is not precisely known and has been the source of much debate, but the Yammouneh fault has usually been cited as the source for the 1202 and 1759 events. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Near East earthquakes of 1759」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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