Antakya has come back from earthquakes over thousands of years. It can again

The ancient Mediterranean city of Antioch, now known as Antakya, was one of the largest in the Roman Empire.

When I started writing this Substack I promised a bit of history and some mountains. The terrible earthquake in Turkey and Syria prompts me to delve into history.

In the year 115CE a terrible earthquake hit Antakya, devastating what was one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire, home to around half a million people. Among the dead was Marcus Pedo Ver…