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The Jordan Rift Valley was formed many millions of years ago in the Miocene epoch (23.8 – 5.3 Myr ago) when the Arabian plate moved northward and then eastward away from Africa. One million years later, the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan Rift Valley rose so that the sea water stopped flooding the area. Alternatively, it was a ...
Lake Lisan was a prehistoric lake that existed between 70,000 and 12,000 BP in the Jordan Rift Valley in the Near East. [1] It is sometimes referred to as a Pleistocene lake. Lisan means tongue in Arabic relating to the shape of the Lisan Peninsula where studies of the sediment formations were taken.
Nowadays the Jordan Valley still is an essential part of one of the main migration routes for birds in the world; within the region, it constitutes the Eastern Route which, together with the parallel Western Route and the Southern-Eilat Mountains Route, allow an estimated 500 million birds belonging 200 species to fly across Israel twice a year ...
An earthquake struck the Jordan Rift Valley on December 5, AD 1033 and caused extreme devastation in the Levant region. It was part of a sequence of four strong earthquakes in the region between 1033 and 1035. Scholars have estimated the moment magnitude to be greater than 7.0 M w and evaluated the Modified Mercalli intensity to X (Extreme).
The Jordanian Highlands extend about 300 km north to south. The highlands are bounded on the north by the deeply-incised Yarmouk River valley, which forms part of the border between Jordan and Syria. They extend to south to Jordan's border with Saudi Arabia. From the plateau to the east the highlands appear as a series of hills.
[68] [69] [70] An entry in the Pet Simulator series, Pet Simulator X sparked controversy among the Roblox community when the developers, Big Games, integrated non-fungible tokens into the game, the first ever instance of such on the platform. [‡ 9] [71] The game has been played over 5 billion times as of January 2023. [72]
The old meaning, which was in use up to around the early 20th century, covered almost the entire length of what today is called the Jordan Rift Valley, running in a north–south orientation between the southern end of the Sea of Galilee and the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba of the Red Sea at Aqaba–Eilat.
1033–34 – 1033 Jordan Rift Valley earthquake: a series of earthquakes which are felt for 40 days [clarification needed] [dubious – discuss] destroys Ramla, Jericho and Nablus [9] 70,000 deaths. [24] 1063 – a large earthquake hits the Levantine littoral. Acre is badly damaged [11] 1068 – ground-rupturing event in Wadi Arabah. Ramla was ...