The Forgotten 1202 earthquake

YouTube ^ | December 12, 2022 | The History Guy

[SunkenCiv]

For most of human history, the disasters wrought by nature were utterly unpredictable, their causes wholly unknown. They were merely a random act of God that could lay waste to whole cities without warning. On the morning of May 20, 1202, thousands of people across an enormous swath of the Earth experienced such destruction.

The Forgotten 1202 earthquake
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[SunkenCiv]

For European peasants winter was an especially difficult time, but some winters are more difficult than others. In the fifteenth century, a series of particularly bad winters struck throughout the 1430s, causing famine, exacerbating disease, and changing culture.

The Bleak Midwinter of the 1430s
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[Fido969]

I haven’t forgotten it.

[SunkenCiv]

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1202_Syria_earthquake

[shadowlands1960]

John was King... I remember it like it was yesterday.

[dsrtsage]

Bidung remembers it quite clearly. He got a gold cross for passing out bottles of water to the survivors.

[Red Badger]

I’ll never get over Macho Grande.....................

[Larry Lucido]

I remember that one. In 1202, there were a flurry of end times posts on Free Republic, with articles like “Huge earthquake shows it’s really the end this time!” from GetYourselfReadyForTheRapture.com.

[dfwgator]

I didn’t feel anything here in Texas.

[MeganC]

WE WILL REBUILD!!!

[9422WMR]

The survivor’s have likely passed away by now. Just saying!🧐

[SunkenCiv]

A twofer, in two ways, so, uh, a four-fer.

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[SunkenCiv]

Oh, they’re still around. They must have stood in a doorway or somethin’.

[dfwgator]

[SunkenCiv]

There’s an old anecdote about John Barrymore, the antique stage actor. He had as usual spent the night drinking, and was told he couldn’t be served any more, so he left the saloon for the one across the street.

It was San Francisco, just as the quake hit.

As the terrain and all about him shook and shimmied, his usual stagger supposedly cancelled it out, and he walked straight to the door of the other saloon.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[SunkenCiv]

You Texans, you have no feelings!!! [sobs]

[dfwgator]

Shades of Walter Matuschanskayasky in Earthquake:

[SunkenCiv]

I’ll probably never see it, so I’ll always have to look up its references. :^)

The real cause was one of Jack Black’s distant ancestors, falling out of his chair, actually I heard the chair broke when he tried to sit in it.

[SunkenCiv]

/rimshot