[People] ran out from their houses into the streets because they saw the houses and the walls tremble, while the wooden beams separated from the walls and swayed back and forth. The buildings that had been supported by various means collapsed and the new apartments were ruined…The earthquake took place on Thursday, the second day of the month of Teveth, all of a sudden, just before sunset, in Ramla and all the rest of the Land of the Philistines, from the fortified towns to the unwalled villages, in all the coastal fortifications until Haifa, in all the cities of the Negev and in the highland region until Jerusalem and all the towns in its vicinity, until Nablus and all the villages in its vicinity until Tiberias all the communities in its vicinity, and in the Galilee hills and in all of Palestine...