Depends on what you are talking about.
it was destroyed by a earthquake
It was destroyed in an earthquake.
San Rafael was not destroyed by fire. The city has not been demolished or destroyed by a major earthquake.
The exact number of houses destroyed in the Valdivia earthquake of 1960 is not known, but it is estimated that tens of thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed due to the severity of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The earthquake, which was the most powerful ever recorded, caused widespread devastation in the region.
It was destroyed in the great Babylonian earthquake in Nabusodor days.
It was destroyed by a earthquake as well as a wildfires and flooding.
It was destroyed by an earthquake but i don't know what year
earthquake
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti destroyed or severely damaged about 4,000 schools.
Approximately 130,000 houses were destroyed by the earthquake that struck Japan in 2011.
Sanfransico
1907