British historian Sarah Irving examined the societal repercussions of a 1927 catastrophic earthquake which hit Palestine, Jordan, southern Lebanon and Syria and the repercussions in the lecture “Knowing about earthquake in Mandatory Levant”, held on Tuesday at the CBRL Amman Institute in Jabal Luweibdeh. Regarding the magnitude, a previous 1837 earthquake killed far more people that the one during the British Mandate in 1927, noted the scholar, who is a ...