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The situation in Weinan and Huayin was similar. In certain areas, 20-metre-deep (66 ft) crevices opened in the earth. Destruction and death were widespread, affecting places as far as 500 kilometres (310 mi) from the epicenter. The earthquake also triggered landslides, which contributed to the massive death toll. [11]
This is a list of disasters in China by death toll. ... Huaxian earthquake: Shaanxi: 100,000+ [2] 16 December 1920: Haiyuan earthquake: Ningxia: 265,000 [3] 27 July 1976:
The most recent earthquake with a death toll of more than a thousand was the 2010 Yushu earthquake, which killed 2,968. ... 512 Shaanxi earthquake
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 ...
The death toll of approximately 810,000 from the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake is claimed to be in part because it was centered on the Loess Plateau, where many yaodongs collapsed.
Death toll may have been a historical conflation with earthquakes on November 1137 in the Jazira plain and the 1138 Aleppo earthquake. [11] 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami: December 26, 2004: Sumatra, Indonesia: 227,898: 9.1–9.3: Death toll includes those missing and presumed dead. [10] 1303 Hongdong earthquake: July 25, 1303
At least 66 people were killed after a strong earthquake shook China's southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, Reuters reported. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported the 6.6 ...
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