Nicolaus of Damascus (Athen. p. 332) records a violent earthquake at Apamea at a previous date, during the Mithridatic Wars: lakes appeared where none were before, and rivers and springs; and many which existed before disappeared. Strabo (p. 579) speaks of this great catastrophe, and of other convulsions at an earlier period.
Historian Nicolaus of Damascus (Athen. p. 332) documented a devastating earthquake in Apamea during the Mithridatic Wars, which caused previously unknown lakes to form and existing rivers and springs to cease to exist; conversely, many that had existed before vanished. Geographer Strabo (p. 579) also wrote about this cataclysmic event, along with other seismic disturbances at an earlier period.