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The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake (Postal romanization: Shensi), known in Chinese colloquially by its regnal year as the Jiajing Great Earthquake " 嘉靖大地震" (Jiājìng Dàdìzhèn) or officially by its epicenter as the Hua County Earthquake " 华县地震" (Huàxiàn Dìzhèn), occurred in the early morning of 2 February 1556 in Huaxian ...
Article Province Deaths Notes 1887 Yellow River flood: Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu: 930,000 [12]1975 Banqiao dam failure: Henan, Anhui: 230,000: This dam failure was a landmark technological failure in the 20th century.
The yellow star is the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. This is a List of earthquakes in China , part of the series of lists of disasters in China . Earthquakes in the loess plateau where residents lived in yaodong caves tended to have big casualties, including the 1303 Hongdong and 1920 Haiyuan earthquakes .
Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings – later followed by seismotomography imaging technique, [1] observations using space satellites from outer space, [2] artificial intelligence (AI)-based early earthquake warnings [3] – they rely mainly ...
1556 Shaanxi earthquake This page was last edited on 8 August 2023, at 01:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
The report said 24 people were still missing from the July 19 disaster in the province of Shaanxi in China's northwest. The area where the bridge on the Danning h Death toll from bridge collapse ...
January 23 – The Shaanxi earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history, occurs with its epicenter in Shaanxi province, China; 830,000 people may have been killed. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] January 24 – In India, at the Sher Mandal in Delhi , the Mughal Emperor Humayun trips while descending the stairs from his library and strikes the side of his head ...
The second earthquake, which was the strongest of the two, was reported an hour later, just before noon ET. That earthquake was a magnitude 6.8 and was centered about 25 miles south of Bartolomé ...