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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 ...
Google Maps' location-tracking feature, known as Timeline, is undergoing a major update. Previously, Google announced plans to shift this data to local storage. Now, the company is sending out ...
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.
Map of the Great Rift Valley. The Great Rift Valley (Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 6,000 or 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, the definition varying between sources, that runs from the southern Turkish Hatay Province in Asia, through the Red Sea, to Mozambique in Southeast Africa.
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