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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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
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 ...
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 ...