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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 ...
Throughout China, poor building codes increases the damage and loss of life from earthquakes. The northern regions of Eastern China are not as seismically active as the western areas of the country, but earthquakes are still possible in this area. Earthquake prediction was popular between 1966 and 1976, which overlapped with the Cultural ...
Several countries experienced their worst ever natural disasters. Chronologically, Guatemala in February suffered 23,000 deaths. Indonesia in June had an earthquake causing 6,000 deaths. China in July had officially 242,000 deaths from the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. This was the worst toll from an earthquake for over 400 years.
The earthquake was the result of strike-slip faulting at a shallow depth. It had a maximum intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. [10]According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake had a moment magnitude of 6.1 while the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) and China Earthquake Administration (CEA) measured the earthquake at 6.4 on the surface ...
In 1976, a huge earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan, less than 200km (124 miles) south of Beijing. More than 240,000 people were killed, making it the second deadliest earthquake in the 20th ...
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— May 2008: A magnitude 7.9 earthquake leaves nearly 90,000 people dead or missing and presumed dead in Sichuan province. — April 2010: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake kills 2,698 people in Qinghai ...
China, Hebei Province: 5.6: 0.0: VI Some homes were destroyed. Unknown depth. Aftershock of March 7 event. Foreshock of March 22 event. 20 [40] [41] [42] DR Congo, North Kivu: 6.6: 29.3: VIII 140 people were killed and at least 101 injured in the 1966 Toro earthquake. Property damage costs were $1.5 million (1966 rate). 140: 101+ 22 [43] [44 ...