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The earthquake hit at 19:05:53 Gansu-Sichuan time (12:05:53 UTC), [6] reportedly 8.25 M w [7] or 7.8 M L, and was followed by a series of aftershocks for three years. The often cited magnitude in scientific literature is M 8.5 which has been regarded as an overestimate due to the limited technological advancements and instrumentation during the period which the earthquake occurred.
Earthquakes in the loess plateau where residents lived in yaodong caves tended to have big casualties, including the 1303 Hongdong and 1920 Haiyuan earthquakes. The most recent earthquake with a death toll of more than a thousand was the 2010 Yushu earthquake , which killed 2,968.
Haiyuan earthquake: Ningxia: 265,000 [3] 27 July 1976: Tangshan earthquake: Hebei: 300,000+ [4] [5] Famine. A full list in chronological order is detailed in the list ...
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The Facebook post was shared five days later, on the same day two aftershocks of that earthquake – one a magnitude 5.2, the other a magnitude 5.1 – were reported near Yujing.
Internal Tangshan reports found 263,299 local deaths. Official nationwide deaths stated to be 242,769. Scholars estimated >300,000. [4] [5] 1920 Haiyuan earthquake: December 16, 1920: Ningxia–Gansu, China: 273,400: 7.8: Previously cited death toll was 230,000 and this figure was revised in 2010. [6] [7] 526 Antioch earthquake: May 21, 526
Every year tens of millions of people take part in a massive earthquake drill called the Great ShakeOut, which teaches people what to do and how to respond in case of a ground-rattling temblor.
An M w 6.6 or M s 6.9 earthquake struck Menyuan County in January 2022, causing little damage and few minor injuries. [12] The earthquake was felt with a maximum intensity of IX on the China seismic intensity scale (IX on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale [13]) over a 157 km 3 area. [14]