[1] Earthquake had an estimated magnitude of Mw  7.0–7.2 or Ms  7.2 and maximum MSK 64 rating of XI (Catastrophic).

This ~1,000 km-long left-lateral transform fault connects the Red Sea spreading center in the south to the Maraş triple junction in the north.

Two other plate boundaries; the Cyprus arc, and East Anatolian Fault meet at this triple junction.

Due to its location at an active and complex plate boundary, Antioch suffers from devastating earthquakes, including one in 115 AD that killed over 200,000 people.

[3] A buried surface rupture along the northernmost strand of the Dead Sea Transform beneath the Amik Basin may correspond with the 1872 event.

[5] No evidence of the 1872 earthquake were found along the southern part of the southern Hacıpaşa Fault, the northernmost segment of the Dead Sea Transform, suggesting the rupture did not extend south towards the Al-Ghab Plain and was only a partial rupture.

[7] Approximately 40 seconds of extreme shaking was sufficient to destroy 1,960 of the 3,003 homes and kill 500 residents.

Shaking was not felt in Egypt,[7] but over a wide area from Rhodes to Diyarbakir and from Konya to Gaza.