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The
1138 Aleppo earthquake
happened near the town of
Aleppo
in northern
Syria
on 11 October 1138. The
United States Geological Survey
lists it as the
third deadliest
earthquake in history with 230,000 people killed.
[1]
However, the total comes from a combination of this earthquake with earthquakes in November 1137 on the
Jazira plain
and 30 September 1139 in
Ganja
,
Azerbaijan
in historical records.
Ibn Taghribirdi
first wrote about this large number of deaths in the fifteenth century.
- ↑
Most destructive known earthquakes on record in the world
Archived
2009-09-01 at the
Wayback Machine
,
United States Geological Survey