Back زلزال حلب (1138) Arabic ১১৩৮-এর আলেপ্পো ভূমিকম্প Bengali/Bangla Terratrèmol d'Alep de 1138 Catalan Erdbeben von Aleppo 1138 German Tertremo de Halepo (1138) Esperanto Terremoto de Alepo de 1138 Spanish Aleppon maanjäristys Finnish Séisme de 1138 à Alep French רעידת האדמה בחלב (1138) HE 1138-as aleppói földrengés Hungarian
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| Local date | 11 October 1138 |
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| Magnitude | Mw7.1[1] |
| Epicenter | 36°13′N 37°10′E / 36.217°N 37.167°E |
| Casualties | 230,000 dead |
The 1138 Aleppo earthquake was among the deadliest earthquakes in history. Its name was taken from the city of Aleppo, in northern Syria, where the most casualties were sustained. The earthquake also caused damage and chaos to many other places in the area around Aleppo.[2] The quake occurred on 11 October 1138 and was preceded by a smaller quake on the 10th.[3] It is frequently listed as the third deadliest earthquake in history,[4] following on from the Shensi and Tangshan earthquakes in China.[5] However, the figure of 230,000 deaths reported by Ibn Taghribirdi in the fifteenth century is most likely based on a historical conflation of this earthquake with earthquakes in November 1137 on the Jazira plain and the large seismic event of 30 September 1139 in the Transcaucasian city of Ganja.[6]
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- ^ Ambraseys, N. (2004), "The 12th century seismic paroxysm in the Middle East: a historical perspective" (PDF), Annals of Geophysics, 47 (2–3), Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia: 743
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