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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 ...
The People's Republic of China established a National Earthquake Administration in 1971 to take charge of monitoring, research, and emergency response for earthquakes. It was renamed China Earthquake Administration (CEA) in 1998, mandated by the Earthquake prevention and Disaster Reduction Act of PRC [4] under the State Council.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
2003 Dayao earthquake [6] 21 August 2008 Yingjiang County, Myanmar–China border region 6.0 M w 5 2008 Yingjiang earthquakes: 30 August 2008 Panzhihua, Sichuan–Yunnan border region 6.0 M w 41 2008 Panzhihua earthquake: 3 August 2014 11 km west of Wenping, Ludian County: 6.2 M w 617 2014 Ludian earthquake: 7 October 2014
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... This is a list of earthquakes that occurred in Sichuan province of China. ... Batang earthquake: 6.7: 1989 ...