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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 early morning of 23 January 1556 in ...
This is a List of earthquakes in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. ... 1556-01-23: 1556 Shaanxi earthquake Shaanxi: 8.0 M w ...
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.
The 1976 Tangshan earthquake ( Chinese: 唐山大地震; pinyin: Tángshān dà dìzhèn; lit. 'Great Tangshan earthquake [ b] ') was a Mw 7.6 earthquake that hit the region around Tangshan, Hebei, China, at 3:42 a.m. on 28 July 1976. The maximum intensity of the earthquake was XI ( Extreme) on the Mercalli scale. In minutes, 85 percent of the ...
Only it was created nearly 2000 years ago, before people even understood what an earthquake was. Zhang Heng lived in China during the Han dynasty, and history remembers him as a scholar in many ...
January 23 – The Shaanxi earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history, occurs with its epicenter in Shaanxi province, China; 830,000 people may have been killed. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] January 24 – In India, at the Sher Mandal in Delhi , the Mughal Emperor Humayun trips while descending the stairs from his library and strikes the side of his head ...
One of the most devastating earthquakes in history occurred near Hua Shan in southeastern Shaanxi on January 23, 1556, killing an estimated 830,000 people (see 1556 Shaanxi earthquake). The end of the short-lived Jiangxi Soviet signaled the beginning of the Long March by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists to the Shaanxi Soviet at Yan'an.
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] detections using space satellites from outer space, [2] use of artificial intelligence (AI) for early earthquake warnings [3] — they rely ...