https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya en-us 2019-06-27 06:03:01 UTC 2025-12-24 00:48:35 UTC hello@padlet.com nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369386293 The earthquake struck the Syrian city of Aleppo (now known as Halab) on the 11th of October 1138 AD.]]> 2019-06-27 06:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369386293 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369387405 The city suffered extensively, and it is estimated that over 230, 000 people died in this earthquake. The most damage was seen in Harem, where crusaders had built a large citadel that was crumbled below the castle, killing 600 castle guards at the time.]]> 2019-06-27 06:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369387405 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369487528 This Earthquake was a large aftershock of a smaller earthquake on the 10th of October 1138. It was estimated to be around 8.5 magnitude on the Richter Scale.]]> 2019-06-27 21:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369487528 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369488108 This earthquake was said to have spread as far as 200 miles from the epicentre of the earthquake.]]> 2019-06-27 21:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369488108 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369488259 2019-06-27 21:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369488259 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369488820 2019-06-27 21:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369488820 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369758685 The Aleppo earthquake was caused by the movement of the African plate and the Arabian plate on the Dead Sea Faultline, also known as the Levant Fault. These plates are moving in the same direction but at different speeds, and this is called a transform plate boundary. The Arabian plate is moving 1.9cm/y and the African plate is moving 0.6cm/y.  Aleppo is in a geographic fault zone prone to earthquakes.]]> 2019-07-01 01:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369758685 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369758978 In the current day people have enough notice to leave their houses to go and find refuge with a family member or friend some place far away from where the expected earthquake is to occur. In the time period of the Aleppo Earthquake lots of countries and cities had conflicts of interest. The Aleppo earthquake was larger than people thought it was going to be, and they also didn't have the technology to detect this major earthquake. They only had a small warning of the earthquake which was the earthquake the day before on the 10th of October 1138.]]> 2019-07-01 01:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369758978 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369759310 This picture in a way shows the short term affects as it must have been left to lie in the dust as either the occupants must have died or fled to relative safety.]]> 2019-07-01 01:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369759310 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369778516 The long term affects are also able to be seen by photographs taken in present time. You can see that there were not efforts put into rebuilding the city, as it is now in ruins and the occupants were either killed in the earthquake or fled to refuge.]]> 2019-07-01 04:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369778516 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369778986 City walls collapsed, houses were completely destroyed, and stones hurled onto the streets from collapsing structures everywhere. The city already ravaged by the Crusades was ruined by the earthquake. The ruins can still be seen today.]]> 2019-07-01 04:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369778986 nina_mason https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369864580 The aftershocks from this earthquake lasted for around three years.]]> 2019-07-01 21:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_mason/6ygljegdf7ya/wish/369864580