The first of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1456_Central_Italy_earthquakes" id="mwNw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1456 Central Italy earthquakes">two earthquakes</a> measuring <span about="#mwt37" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"M","href":"./Template:M"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"w"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwOA" typeof="mw:Transclusion">M</span><sub about="#mwt37">w</sub><span about="#mwt37" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><link about="#mwt37" href="./Category:Articles_using_Mw_magnitude_scale" id="mwOQ" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/> 7.2 strikes Italy, causing extreme destruction and killing upwards of 70,000 people.<sup about="#mwt41" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"Nunziata"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-Nunziata-6"}}' id="cite_ref-Nunziata_6-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_5#cite_note-Nunziata-6" id="mwOg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwOw">[6]</span></a></sup>