Natural disasters in Syria

Syria is another place that is greatly affected by natural disasters. One of these was the:

1138 Aleppo earthquake

Deadliest earthquakes
Rank	Earthquake	Country	Year	Fatalities
1	"Shaanxi"	China	1556	830,000
2	"Indian Ocean"	Nr. Indonesia	2004	283,100
3	"Tangshan"	China	1976	242,000
4	"Aleppo"	Syria	1138	230,000
5	"Gansu"	China	1920	c. 200,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 1138 Aleppo earthquake was an earthquake that was located near the town of Aleppo in northern Syria on 11 October 1138. The United States Geological Survey lists it as the fourth deadliest earthquake in history. However, the figure of 230,000 dead is 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 Persian city of Ganja. The first mention of a 230,000 death toll was by Ibn Taghribirdi in the fifteenth century.

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Ambulance: 110
Fire brigade: 113
Police: 112