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Earthquakes with a magnitude 4.5 and over (1900–2015). The yellow star is the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. This is a List of earthquakes in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. Earthquakes in the loess plateau where residents lived in yaodong caves tended to have big casualties, including the 1303 Hongdong and 1920 Haiyuan ...
Great Chinese Famine of 1958–62 [6] 15–55 million Great Leap Forward economic failure. The starved could not move out because all out-of-town traffic were guarded by militia to contain the news of starvation. [7] Chinese famine of 1876–79. Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan. [8] 9–13 million Drought Chinese famine of 1928–30. Gansu, Shaanxi. [9 ...
Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings — later followed by seismotomography imaging technique, [1] observations using space satellites from outer space, [2] artificial intelligence (AI)-based earthquake warning systems [3] — they rely mainly ...
A timeline of world’s strongest earthquakes over the last 20 years. ... China. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan province, killing about 87,600 people. 26 December 2004 .
An earthquake that killed more than 120 people in China this week was the country's deadliest in nearly a decade. Earthquakes happen most frequently in western China on the Tibetan Plateau or its ...
A pie chart comparing the seismic moment release of the three largest earthquakes for the hundred-year period from 1906 to 2005 with that for all earthquakes of magnitudes <6, 6 to 7, 7 to 8, and >8 for the same period. The 2011 Japan quake would be roughly similar to Sumatra. Earthquakes of magnitude 8.0 and greater from 1900 to 2018.
1966 Xingtai earthquakes: China Earthquake March 22 1967 10,000 1967 Paradip cyclone [16] India Tropical cyclone October 26 1968 15,000 1968 Dasht-e Bayaz and Ferdows earthquakes: Iran Earthquake August 31 1969 3,000 1969 Yangjiang earthquake: China July 26 1970 300,000-500,000 1970 Bhola cyclone: India, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Tropical ...
2008 Sichuan earthquake China: May 12: 12 2009: 8.1: 192: 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami Samoa: September 29: 17 2010: 8.8: 525: 2010 Chile earthquake Chile: February 27: 22 2011: 9.0–9.1: 19,759: 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami Japan: March 11: 20 2012: 8.6: 10: 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes Indonesia, Indian Ocean: April 11: 17 2013: ...