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  2. 1815 Pinglu earthquake - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Shanxi Rift System along the eastern margin of the Ordos Block. Western Henan and southern Shanxi in northern China were struck by an earthquake of estimated magnitude M s 6.8 on 23 October 1815. The epicentre was in Pinglu County in southernmost Shanxi, which was the worse affected area.

  3. Shanxi Rift System - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Shanxi Rift System along the eastern margin of the Ordos Block. The Shanxi Rift System or Fen–Wei Rift System [1] is a zone of active extensional tectonics that forms the eastern margin of the Ordos Block in northern China. The zone extends for at least 900 km (560 mi) and runs south-southwest to north-northeast.

  4. Pinglu District - Wikipedia

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    Pinglu District (simplified Chinese: 平鲁区; traditional Chinese: 平魯區; pinyin: Pínglǔ Qū) is a district of the city of Shuozhou, Shanxi province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northwest.

  5. Pinglu County - Wikipedia

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    Pinglu County (simplified Chinese: 平陆县; traditional Chinese: 平陸縣; pinyin: Pínglù Xiàn) is a county in southern Shanxi province of China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yuncheng and has a population of approximately 200,000 people. Pinglu is historically an agricultural county, producing apples ...

  6. Rift valley - Wikipedia

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    African Rift Valley. From left to right: Lake Upemba, Lake Mweru, Lake Tanganyika (largest), and Lake Rukwa. A rift valley near Quilotoa, Ecuador. The Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben Þingvallavatn. A rift valley is a linear shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges produced by the action of a geologic rift.

  7. Pinglu - Wikipedia

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    Pinglu may refer to: Pinglu County, in Shanxi, China; Pinglu District, in Shuozhou, Shanxi, China; Pinglu Canal (平陆运河), under-construction canal in Guangxi

  8. Loess Plateau - Wikipedia

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    This map shows the distribution of loess with the locations of basins and mountains. Adapted from Sun 2002. [6] Also, the direction of the prevailing winds is shown. It shows how and where the loess is transported [6] The sources of loess are the Gobi Desert and the deserts nearby. However, the loess in the desert comes from the Gobi Altay Mts ...

  9. 1556 Shaanxi earthquake - Wikipedia

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    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 ...