Photo: Major Quake, Tsunami Likely in Middle East, Study Finds

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The Middle East region—especially coastal cities such as Beirut, above—faces an impending earthquake from an underwater fault that rumbles every 1,500 years, scientists say.


A Beirut research team recently identified the fault as the likely cause of a devastating quake in A.D. 551, which struck the coast of Phoenicia, now Lebanon.


Photograph by Barry Iverson/Time & Life Pictures/Getty

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