A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1138_Aleppo_earthquake" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1138 Aleppo earthquake">massive earthquake</a> strikes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleppo" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aleppo">Aleppo</a>; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever.<sup about="#mwt13" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_11#cite_note-1" id="mwEw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwFA">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><a class="external text" href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/most_destructive.php" id="mwBk0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Most Destructive Known Earthquakes on Record in the World</a> <a about="#mwt12" class="external text" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"webarchive","href":"./Template:Webarchive"},"params":{"url":{"wt":"https://web.archive.org/web/20090901233953/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/most_destructive.php"},"date":{"wt":"1 September 2009"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090901233953/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/most_destructive.php" id="mwBk4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" typeof="mw:Transclusion">Archived</a><span about="#mwt12" id="mwBk8"> 1 September 2009 at the </span><a about="#mwt12" href="./Wayback_Machine" id="mwBlA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a href="./United_States_Geological_Survey" id="mwBlI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Geological Survey">United States Geological Survey</a></span>