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Historic Earthquake
1903 Palestine Earthquake
29 March 1903 · Nabulus · Palestine
On 29 March 1903 at 22:30 UTC, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Palestine (Nabulus). It occurred on the African Plate, 27 km from its boundary with the Arabian Plate (continental transform fault). It killed at least 20 people.
- Date
- 29 March 1903
- Time
- 22:30 UTC
- Magnitude
- 5.7
- Deaths
- 20
- Plate
- African Plate
- Country
- Palestine
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Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
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Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth