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This is a list of disasters in China by death toll. Earthquake A full ... Hongdong earthquake: Shanxi: 270,000 [1] 23 January 1556: Huaxian earthquake: Shaanxi ...
The 1906 Manasi earthquake (玛纳斯地震), also known as the Manas earthquake occurred in the morning of December 23, 1906, at 02:21 UTC+8:00 local time or December 22, 18:21 UTC. It measured 8.0–8.3 on the moment magnitude scale and 8.3 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. The epicenter of this earthquake is located in Manas County ...
Death toll (estimate) Event Location Date 1. 242,419 –655,000 [44] 1976 Tangshan earthquake: China July 28, 1976: 2. 110,000−316,000: 2010 Haiti earthquake: Haiti: January 12, 2010: 3. 250,000 –300,000 [10] 526 Antioch earthquake: Byzantine Empire (now Turkey) May 526: 4. 273,407 [13] 1920 Haiyuan earthquake: Ningxia, Republic of China ...
The most recent earthquake with a death toll of more than a thousand was the 2010 Yushu earthquake, which killed 2,968. The collision of India with the rest of Asia has led to seismic activity throughout Western China, particularly in Tibet and the Yunnan, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces.
One of China's most powerful earthquakes in recent years killed at least 149 people in a remote northwestern region, according to state media, with two people still missing after the magnitude 6.2 ...
The death toll was the highest since an August 2014 quake that killed 617 people in southwest China's Yunnan province. The country's deadliest earthquake in recent years was a 7.9 magnitude quake ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck one of China's poorest regions just before midnight on Monday, killing at least 126 people, injuring hundreds and bringing down mud houses in ...
The list incorporates high-quality earthquake source (i.e., origin time, location and earthquake magnitude) and fatality information from several sources. Earthquake locations are taken from the Centennial Catalog [ 1 ] and the updated Engdahl, van der Hilst and Buland earthquake catalog, [ 2 ] which is complete to December 2005.