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Earthquakes with a magnitude 4.5 and over (1900–2015). 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 ...
Great Chinese Famine of 1958–62 [6] 15–55 million Great Leap Forward economic failure. The starved could not move out because all out-of-town traffic were guarded by militia to contain the news of starvation. [7] Chinese famine of 1876–79. Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan. [8] 9–13 million Drought Chinese famine of 1928–30. Gansu, Shaanxi. [9 ...
On average, a major earthquake is predicted to occur in the North China Plain every 300 years, most recently with the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. A 2007 study by Risk Management Solutions found that an earthquake similar in size to the 1679 Sanhe-Pinggu event could have devastating effects and result in the deaths of between 35,000 and 75,000 people.
An earthquake that killed more than 120 people in China this week was the country's deadliest in nearly a decade. Earthquakes happen most frequently in western China on the Tibetan Plateau or its ...
Map of the Weihe–Shanxi Rift System along the southern and eastern margin of the Ordos Block The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake (Postal romanization: Shensi), known in colloquial Chinese by its regnal year as the Jiajing Great Earthquake " 嘉靖大地震" (Jiājìng Dàdìzhèn) or officially known by the name of its epicenter as the Hua County Earthquake " 华县地震" (Huàxiàn Dìzhèn ...
The earthquake hit at 19:05:53 Gansu-Sichuan time (12:05:53 UTC), [6] reportedly 8.25 M w [7] or 7.8 M L, and was followed by a series of aftershocks for three years. The often cited magnitude in scientific literature is M 8.5 which has been regarded as an overestimate due to the limited technological advancements and instrumentation during the period which the earthquake occurred.
The China Earthquake Networks Center gave the earthquake a magnitude of M s 7.1, [3] while the United States Geological Survey said the earthquake measured M ww 7.0. [2] It struck at 02:09 CST (18:09 UTC) [4] at a depth of 13 kilometers (8.1 miles). [2] The epicenter was located in a mountainous area with an average altitude of about 3,048 ...
The Xingtai earthquake (Chinese: 邢 台 大 地 震; pinyin: Xíngtái Dà Dìzhèn) was a sequence of major earthquakes that took place between March 8 and March 29, 1966, in the area administered by the prefecture-level city of Xingtai in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. The first earthquake with magnitude 6.0 on the ...