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The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake (Chinese: 海原大地震; pinyin: Hǎiyuán dà dìzhèn) occurred on December 16 in Haiyuan County, Ningxia Province, Republic of China at 19:05:53. It was also called the 1920 Gansu earthquake [ 3 ] because Ningxia was a part of Gansu Province when the earthquake occurred.
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 .
16 Dec 1920 Haiyuan County, Ningxia, China 1920 Haiyuan earthquake >100,000 Loess flows and landslides over an area of 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi). Failures in loess caused extreme fissuring, landslide dams, and buried villages. [70] 1920 Veracruz, Mexico: Rio Huitzilapan debris flows est. 600–870
Events in the year 1920 in China. Incumbents. President: Xu Shichang; Premier: Jin Yunpeng; Events. July 14–23 – Zhili–Anhui War; December 16 – 1920 Haiyuan ...
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The earthquake was felt with a maximum intensity of IX on the China seismic intensity scale (IX on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale [13]) over a 157 km 3 area. [14] It generated a 22 km (14 mi) surface rupture along the Lenglongling segment of the Haiyuan Fault. On-site investigations found up to 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) of left-lateral strike ...
The bodies of the remaining victims of a landslide in southwestern China were recovered Thursday, bringing the death toll to 44 after four days of searching through the rubble of dirt and crumbled ...
Rescuers in southwestern China’s mountainous Yunnan province retrieved nine bodies after a landslide buried 47 people in a remote village on Monday, state media said. State media said eight of ...