The Forgotten 1202 earthquake

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.
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[@harmony9591]

Suddenly, and sadly, this video became hugely relevant when the earthquake struck Syria and Turkey. Good work, THG!

[@randalljeffs7272]

Zephaniah even notes that the next earthquake will split the mount of olives in two. I understand that an important visitor may even be present for that event. 😊

[@PopCultureFan_]

Uh, who would that be? lol. If this is what i think it is about, gimme a freaken break🤔. Whoever that is is not infact great to say the least if they just let that happen.

[@PinkyJujubean]

The important visitor is Zephaniah's Uncle Murray who flew in from Buffalo

[@HowitzerBug]

It's an excellent point that big, life-changing events of entire nations do indeed get forgotten over time. This is why history is so incredibly important, so we don't forget the lessons learned. In this case for that region to be aware of the threat of severe earthquake even though they're forgotten/usually small. Great content as always! Really enjoyed getting the views of the event from multiple perspectives 👍

[@1pcfred]

Lessons learned from the past are of no practical value today. That is due to the changing nature of reality itself. We may be overdue for an earthquake in that region but then again it may never happen. Who's to say? Even if it did the impact would be far different today than it was then. If there is any meaning to life it is simply to see what tomorrow will bring, not dwell over what's already occurred.

[@VanillaMacaron551]

@@1pcfred Oooh boy! The earth has been doing its thing for hundreds of millions of years and will keep doing so - we have so much to learn from earth sciences and human history. I suggest you go and live out on the Pacific coast of Washington, Oregon or northern California. Discoveries in recent decades show we can actually predict that within the next 200 years a massive earthquake and tsunami will hit that coastline. Bands of sand in the coastal soil show it has been happening like clockwork every 300-500 years for the past 20,000 years at least. Japanese records tell us exactly when the last one hit in 1700 - they were affected too. Since science started to understand plate tectonics, we can now see how it happens over and over in that region. FEMA understands - they are preparing for an event where 12,000 people die and buildings and bridges collapse all over the region. When you, sir, live out on coastal PNW, I'm sorry but you will be denied access to the towers being built for school children and others to run up when the tsunami warning comes - because you don't believe in learning from history. Yours is one of the stupidest comments I have read in a long time.

[@653j521]

@@1pcfred Or...learning from the past is always helpful, so we don't reinvent the wheel or repeat our errors. Being educated about what came before Wonderful Us appeared on the planet is completely different from dwelling on it.

[@-jeff-]

Thanks Lance for another earth shaking history lesson.

[@SofaKingShit]

Hard to fault this video about plate tectonics.

[@FuncleChuck]

We are overdue for a lot of “big ones” - doesn’t mean that any of them will happen in our lifetimes, but it does mean that we must be prepared for them within our lifetimes.

[@adriennegormley9358]

That's a common mindset where I live, but then again I've lived in the SF bay area for almost 60 yrs. When they're common enough that where you work (this was mid 70s, so no net/web and we had to wait for radio reports) someone's tarts a pool to guess the magnitude at a quarter a pop, yeah, you're aware of them.

[@1pcfred]

Just get right with God and you're prepared for whatever may come. Or in other words there's nothing you can really do. What happens will happen. You could build the ultimate survival bunker and be away on a trip when the SHTF. Then perhaps meet your demise expending all of your effort to get back to what you've prepared.

[@brasschick4214]

Yes, imminent in geological time is different to our experience of human time.

[@patrickday4206]

@@adriennegormley9358 until it slides off into the ocean! Lol we are supposedly in Washington supposed to have a big one that will destroy everything and are overdue also! Lol

[@Coltbreath]

Agreed!

[@wallymorgan2524]

I have missed the history guy. Good to see my favorite history teacher He is A history teacher that needs to be remembered 👍🐄🐮

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Why missed me?

[@TheBajiko]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel The amount of time it takes to click on the next video is distressing.

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​TheBajiko you can't rush research for a great video. I don't care how long it takes, I learn something every time.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

@@dragonbrownies517 thanks for the compliment . But I release three videos a week.

[@loanianderson1978]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel We don't always get the notifications, even though we have you "belled" under All Notifications.

[@grimreaper6557]

Sadly we always forget that what happened before can and usually does happen again when we least expect it that is why History Should always be Remembered 👍👏

[@pag-op7wi]

Between this video, your work on the Saint Scholastica Day riot and many others…..you prove that the overlooked chapters of our past are truly moments in history that DESERVE to be remembered. Thank you for your passion sir and may you continue to remind us of such events for years to come, happy new year and much love from New York, New York.

[@sonyascott6114]

I just LOVE how you present an illustrate a story from the past.Using you body and Hands plus facial expressions adds to the story in such a serious way.Thank you,you truly are 1 of a kind!

[@General_Confusion]

I remember it well, Saturday morning just after breakfast, The wife was fuming as she'd just done the Hoovering. I was just about to go out and feed the Goats and BAM, dust everywhere curtains were filthy.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

LOL

[@LaikaLycanthrope]

In 1903, a small seismic hiccup caused part of a mountain to fall on the town of Frank, AB. You can still tour the rubble, but keep in mind there's still houses and people under there; it happened late at night. See: Frank Slide

[@johntabler349]

The most important thing to ever happen can be forgotten within a century, a quote I'll hold on to

[@brendawilliams8062]

Temples and ports is where they check. Time and times and half a times. Whatever undetermined time that will be

[@monicacall7532]

Living near an earthquake fault that hasn’t been active in nearly 2 centuries makes me a bit nervous. Here in the Intermountain West we often have tiny earthquakes, but rarely have ones that are big enough to be felt. I remember the over 5.0 one that happened when I was in kindergarten. We were singing Thanksgiving songs when the earth began to shake which caused my classmates and I to fall down and for the piano to roll across the room part way. The state geologists say that we’re overdue for a big one. I can’t even imagine one that could be felt from Upper Egypt to possibly Cyprus and the then Byzantine Empire.

[@_Opal_Miner_]

More geology and natural disasters please. Also would love to see episodes on forgotten scientists who make great discoveries but never became household names.

[@lorinapetranova2607]

You mean like the name of the woman who invented the bra ?

[@hj8607]

I did completely forget about this event.

[@dsc4178]

The Lisbon earthquake was a game-changer.

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[@nozrep]

just noticed… but so glad to see that he has have over a million subscribers now! Have been watching his channel since it was under 50k subscribers! Not from the beginning, but close!

[@HDEFMAN1]

Fascinating, those earthquakes will have caused ripples down though the centuries.

[@lancerevell5979]

Shocking, right? I'm trembling. 😄

[@goodun2974]

@@lancerevell5979, we can't fault you for worrying!,😁

[@1pcfred]

I was only in a mild earthquake once. It was still a rather unsettling experience. Terra Firma wasn't quite so firm for a moment. The very idea did not sit well with me either. At first I thought I was having some kind of an episode. I was looking at the floor and the floor rose up towards me. I thought, well that's not normal.

[@LadyAnuB]

You're not from the parts of California that get shaken on a regular basis. Just last month, I sat through two 4.4 earthquakes in the Rohnert Park Costco parking lot in my car. An almost normal event for me as I made it through the Loma Prieta earthquake and others as well. There was the South Bay earthquake that rolled through my HS French class as a freshman. The 5.8 Yountville earthquake which felt like it came from the ocean. I live through 3 magnitude 4s when I lived in El Sobrante for the second time. The 6.0 South Napa quake was a circular ride in my bed. I find earthquakes easy events as they occur and then you conduct damage assessment and repair, if needed.

[@1pcfred]

@@LadyAnuB I'm not one to put too much stock into, Signs from God but sometimes I have to admit the message is pretty clear. When the ground is shaking that clearly means, get out!

[@LadyAnuB]

@@1pcfred Depends on your location. I stayed in my car for the last two earthquakes and other quakes I have been lucky to not have stuff falling about me. Given stuff is falling about me, I locate to safety indoors and stay indoors. Outdoors, I move to safety as well. You don't blindly go running around in an earthquake, you stay safe then move. I forgot the hockey earthquake. During a San Jose Sharks playoff game in San Jose, the announcers said an earthquake was happening then 15 seconds later the wave hit my grandparents place (I was living with them as they needed the help). A trippy earthquake moment.

[@steven20653]

I was living in Maryland in an apartment located on the 3rd floor. I was out on my patio when a small earthquake occurred. There was a loud boom, followed by what felt like the building lurching towards the ground. I flicked out my smoke and just noped out to the ground floor and then out to the parking lot. A different tenant was screaming “I’m from California, stay inside” which while I know to be true, I ignored by yelling back “that’s California where they have building codes for earthquakes, this is southern MD. We don’t have those codes here.” All in all a funny and unique experience.

[@LadyAnuB]

@@steven20653 I would still heed the California advice if I were inside the building as long as it's a newer building. If I'm in a brick building in MD during an earthquake, I find a sturdy piece of furniture to get under and hope the quake's not big enough to collapse the building.

[@oldeagle2514]

The forgotten 1202 earthquake.....You're right, I forgot all about it!

[@roberttaylor7637]

Thanks again for another great episode

[@vapormissile]

You help me keep my powder dry. Thanks again.

[@fatboyrowing]

Feeding the algorithm because I am better informed and entertained from it. Thanks THG!

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!

[@945hilo]

Love your videos, I’m 52 and I always want to learn more especially history

[@wallymorgan2524]

I am right there with you. I never cared for it when in school but now I cannot get enough. What’s up with that🤔🤔 But I am not as OLD a as you lol But trying to catch up 👍🐄🐮

[@JoelMMcKinney]

Excellent cardigan and bow tie combo.

[@shawnr771]

Thanks for the lesson.

[@earllutz2663]

Thank you again THG. This video, like your videos in the past, was again, very informative.

[@theemmjay5130]

Saying that today's events will, one day, be largely be forgotten, makes me imagine a future counterpart to the History Guy talking about the COVID-19 pandemic.

[@tomh6183]

Another great lesson in history,thank you.Also love the fedora and bowler on the wall behind you.

[@jeanthony4003]

I don't comment on your videos enough. I'll try to do better. You remind me of a history teacher I had at University. I learned so much.

[@mikepoulin3020]

The great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 probably had a large role in shrinking the Portuguese empire....

[@TreeSawyer]

Had to come back and watch this after their most recent earthquake.

[@gralwalters]

Love the content. Please produce videos for the 1908 Messina earthquake, and any major earthquake or hurricane/cyclone/typhoon from less known areas where these disasters occur(preferably the Indian subcontinent (earthquakes and cyclones), South America(cyclones, Andean earthquakes are well known).

[@nozrep]

10:00; what are those cool ocillating geometric animations? Is it that scale thing he mentioned? They tripped me out a little bit!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Those are generic earthquake animations from a stock footage site.

[@nozrep]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannelvery cool!

[@joeyhardin1288]

Thank you, May 20, my birthday. Merry Christmas. God Bless and stay safe.

[@DanaBentley]

Watching this in February 2023, just after the big earthquake in Turkey and Syria is chilling.

[@markgardiner6733]

Thanks HG, another great video and it is critical we remember history!

[@jamesengland7461]

Thank you for another great history lesson, THG!

[@lucashinch]

Nice sweater! And as always excellent video! Thanks again.

[@oldhick9047]

I am so old, I do remember the quake of 02', but the one in 40 BC was a real dusey.

[@CwL-1984]

Outstanding 👍👍

[@secretagent86]

i love your channel. however i suspect that sales of bowties will not take off lol. they actually did when Dr. Who wore one (matt smith). he also had many buy a red fez. there is an idea for you... the history of the fez ( if it has not been done)

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

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[@goodun2974]

"Don't never, don't do it without your fez on, oh no...." Steely Dan

[@kellydalstok8900]

Bowties are cool

[@RetiredSailor60]

I visited Israel in Nov 1995 while deployed on USS Whidbey Island LSD 41. Transited the Red Sea and Suez Canal in 2002 twice; South and North bound transits, while deployed on USS Wasp LHD 1.

[@lancerevell5979]

My ship, the Knox Class Frigate USS Ainsworth (FF1090) made this trip during our 1983 deployment to the Indian Ocean.

[@jong.7836]

And it did finally happen again here in February, 2023. Unbelievable destruction in Turkey and Syria. 😢

[@mhick3333]

such a good subject and great presentation

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Hey 👋 History Guy, 🤓 I am well aware of all the changes occurring all over the earth. Knowing that drought is a major problem. Living here in Las Vegas we had 240 straight days without any rain !🌧 We are expecting 4 feet of snow ❄ Around Tahoe. Which could be great to lessen the drought that's affecting our part of the world 🌎. I think about the Euphrates going dry .It may be a world 🌎 away but it could affect everyone world wide. I hope everyone has A White Christmas 🎄

[@rhuephus]

ha ha ... that's what happens in the middle of a DESERT

[@philgiglio7922]

Mississippi river is low enough that vital barge traffic is Not moving

[@VanillaMacaron551]

@@philgiglio7922 wow! We had this in Australia's mighty Murray River on and off in recent decades - where the river runs for thousands of kilometres but almost runs dry by the time it reaches the sea. However now we've had three La Niña summers and floods and more floods. The wet is tough but the dry is worse, in my opinion.

[@annoyed707]

If that won't shake you up, nothing will.

[@sinebar]

Every now and then Mother Nature reminds us who is actually in charge. On another note: Its amazing, judging from the ancient paintings, that it took Artis so long to discover perspective but once they did it was game on.

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

This program reminds me of something on public T.V. decades ago. About a dry canal in Egypt that in ancient times was shifted and separated with the grade reversed. A new one is still around they are both dry to to the Desert growing. They've Ben dry for hundreds of years. Great Story History Guys 😁

[@pamelamays4186]

The intros to your videos are amazing!

[@franklinhadick2866]

Keep these coming History Guy, oh and your channel is excellent.

[@jerseystotler3615]

Fantastic information!!! I never even heard of this monumental earthquake!!!

[@robertc.delmedico6242]

Thank you, history guy!!!👍👍👍👍👍

[@russwoodward8251]

Thanks History Guy and Team!

[@AmericaWomannn]

It’s straight up terrifying. I’m a 19 yr breast cancer survivor so I know fear. One of these days the earth is gonna move us around……all at once….

[@patrickfreeman8257]

"The big one is overdue" which is how seismologist say "We don't have the slightest idea if or when an earth quake will strike."

[@653j521]

They are looking at the tension and movement of plates.

[@andybunn5780]

Don't forget the line "and we need more grants."

[@NavigatEric]

History Guy, another excellent episode.

[@scottyb68]

Tyre was flattened.

[@seathrunmagaoinghous4119]

There have been three in the last week just across the Mississippi from you in Jefferson county Mo in the last week.

[@pamelahomeyer748]

Thank you for your video

[@DanielBrown-sn9op]

We shall remember, thanks to people like the History guy and family.🌎🎄🕯✌🙏🏾😷✝️☮

[@c.rutherford]

3:33 cutest lion shield ever.....

[@pakde8002]

Humans have a knack for building cities over fault lines.

[@653j521]

And everywhere else.

[@alanmoffat4454]

WELL THAT COULD BE CALLD BIBLICAL IF YOU CAN GET AWAY WHITH IT ,.

[@ellenbryn]

Excellent as always. This one really is forgotten - it's the first geological event any history channel has ever covered that I didn't know about, because I'm a geology geek! Speaking of earth science: check out the 1607 Bristol flood. Some scholars have giessed an underwater landslide somewhere caused s tdunami, or it was drom the volcanic isle of La Palma partly collapsing like that volcano that blew early thid year and sent tsunamis towards Tonga. Others guess the remnants of a hurricane pushing storm surge ashore: as hurricane winds lose spees, the wind field widens, like a skater opening her arms; storm surge is caused as much as anything by a huge windfield piling up lots and lots of water Anyway the 1607 flood happened just after the printing press was getting going and looking for content that was easy to print and sell, so there's pamphlets spreading the news almost like Clickbait.

[@VanillaMacaron551]

Fascinating, thank you. I'm going to look up that Bristol flood. History and geology geek here.

[@billiep4338]

Thank you ❤

[@jasonz7788]

Awesome thanks 👍

[@patrickfreeman8257]

I can't imagine what you do with a sudden 100,000 corpses in early 13th century

[@653j521]

Start a funeral pyre?

[@andybunn5780]

Walk away

[@patrickfreeman8257]

@@andybunn5780 No. You have to bury them. Otherwise they'll vote Democrat

[@lizj5740]

@@patrickfreeman8257 I thought the voting occurred AFTER the burial??

[@johnstevenson9956]

By the wildest coincidence, minutes earlier I was just reading about a building built by the Knights Templar in Syria, that survived the 1202 earthquake, while all the buildings around it fell.

[@patrickday4206]

Spells lol from worshiping the devil lol

[@rickmcdonald1557]

Templars were smart dudes but The Catholics had them all murdered because they were a threat to all the BS The Catholics were brainwashing the public with. More murders in The Bible than all the world wars~!!!

[@patrickday4206]

@@rickmcdonald1557 the catholic church destroyed so much it's hard to imagine what the world would have looked like if they hadn't have done so many atrocious things!

[@rickmcdonald1557]

@@patrickday4206 Yes especially in South America and what they did to the Native Americans in North America. They were Spanish Speaking Nazis'~!!

[@patrickday4206]

@@rickmcdonald1557 yeah it was horrible their was one guy that rounded up the remaining documents from their culture into a library and when they found out they burned it down Aztec!

[@gaius_enceladus]

Great video! I think this quake was also responsible for largely destroying what was left of the Lighthouse of Alexandria (which had already been badly damaged by earlier quakes). What a pity it is that it doesn't still exist! ( At least it's possible to go diving and see its various massive blocks and pillars strewn on the bottom of the harbour there. )

[@tomrecane6366]

Excellent episode. I want me one of them golden bow ties.

[@R.C.425]

Thank you

[@vlmellody51]

Fascinating video, as always! Thank you for reminding us of happenings best not forgot.

[@1pcfred]

forgetaboutit. 🤣

[@BasicDrumming]

Great video.

[@patrickday4206]

Your tie and way you talk makes me think about that guy that used to sell the book on getting government grants! Lol

[@lumberpilot]

It's amazing to think that earthquakes have destroyed cities filled with beautiful buildings, domes and towers and that over and over again, the people chose to rebuild. Not once did a group of people say, Okay, no more cities."

[@patrickday4206]

Yeah but many times shaped how they built Japanese architecture was a prime example of building differently because of many extreme earthquakes

[@BlaBla-pf8mf]

Many roman cities in Europe were abandoned during the migration period.

[@MarshOakDojoTimPruitt]

thanks

[@RobertRAbell]

Thank you History Guy appreciate all y’all do to bring us the Real History. All day long Yahoo 😅

[@mn4169]

well said

[@Nastyswimmer]

3:57 - Outre-mer, pronounced "OOT-ruh-MARE" (French for "overseas"), not out-REE-muh

[@ThomasWLalor]

Earthquakes really shake my faith to its very foundations.

[@davidclare4983]

Thanks!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thank you!

[@lacey3880]

I love ur direct Ness..-

[@steveshoemaker6347]

l don't know why l can't remember that Earthquake ....But thank THG🎀 for reminding of it Bye for now

[@wwisaacson4807]

The long overdue earthquake has occurred.

[@kevinnagel68]

We just had the most powerful earthquake in Alberta Recorded history 2 weeks ago at 5,9 RS that had an epicentre about 140 mile northwest of the geographical Center of Alberta Canada… first one we ever experienced here… it was unforgettable

[@theresaalexander4142]

Yeah. "When the earth moves under your feet" you tend to reevaluate every thing you think you know. Suddenly, nothing is reliable. Except God. 🙂

[@whoever6458]

Yep. The one thing we do know for sure about earthquakes is that if there is one, there will eventually be others.

[@MattH-wg7ou]

Please make a video on the Great Charleston [SC] Earthquake of 1886!

[@kevinconrad6156]

HG, have you paid attention to weather forecast within the last 10 years, they are real good now, close to 100%.. My phone tells me it is going to rain just a few minutes before it does now, it did not do that just a few years ago.

[@richardklug822]

So true, at least for my area. The radar apps are also especially helpful in locally tracking incoming storms. I'm rarely caught off guard by weather these days.

[@lacey3880]

Thank u ..I can

[@LongTrout]

I gave you the business once in anger. I watched this video twice to make up for it. I hope it works.

[@scottbrick1011]

Could you do a video on Mary Dyer? Love your channel

[@MrTaxiRob]

The area is riddled with faults. It's probably what started the legend of Jericho's walls literally falling over in ancient times.

[@Jakob_DK]

Amazing

[@kevinbyrne4538]

3:55 -- not "out-reemer" but "oo-truh-mair" (outre mer = overseas)

[@discipleofjmb]

And we just had another catastrophic earthquake in the same area. Very sad...

[@censusgary]

Wait, 1202 was not a thousand years ago. It was 820 years ago.

[@archangel_one]

Wow, more information than what I was looking for -- but that's okay. Could it be that earthquakes were more often and more severe than today?

[@TM-ev2tc]

You should check into the Pleasant Valley War.