Jerusalem too is riddled with fault lines, but none are active, says Hamiel.

Much of this is focused on earthquake activity at the Dead Sea, located 13 miles from Jerusalem.

An Earthquake in Jerusalem on January 15th, 1546 was 6.7 on the Richter Scale. . Latter-day geologists and archaeologists estimate the 750 B.C.E. "Do you have your map?" Thesis, 2014; 106 pages, Hebrew with English abstract] This study alerts on the danger of a 5+ magnitude earthquake to the people of the Kibbutz, due to falling rocks from Mt Gilboa. The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 27, mentions that an earthquake coincided with the crucifixion: Matthew 27:50-51 “And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. he asks, tossing me a small map covered in lines and borders and produced by his NGO.

The last big earthquake in the area was in 1927, when a magnitude 6.3 quake centered near Jericho, about 15 miles to the east of Jerusalem, killed more than 200 people. Known as the 1927 Jericho Earthquake, the 6.25 magnitude quake lasted approximately five seconds and rippled from its epicenter in the northern Dead Sea region to Jerusalem… quake at a magnitude of 7.5 on the Richter scale.

Professor Amotz Agnon, a Geology and Geophysics expert working at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, believes a major earthquake in the near future could kill thousands. The last Earthquake was in 1927 and caused the Allenby Bridge to collapse. Israel has had: (M1.5 or greater) 0 earthquakes in the past 24 hours 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days; 0 earthquakes in the past 30 days; 1 earthquake in the past 365 days Special Link: “Rock fall hazard evaluation down the Gilboa fault slope: Hefziba and Beit-Alfa” [Yuval Levy, Hebrew Univ. History of Earthquakes in Israel. If the Temple cracked and the city was damaged, the cause had to be a major tremor originating in the Dead Sea Rift. On a recent afternoon, Seidemann gives me his tour of Jerusalem's fault lines.