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On 18 December 2023 at around 23:59:30 CST, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9–6.2 struck Jishishan County, in Gansu Province, China. [2] The shallow thrust faulting earthquake struck a densely populated area on the border between the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. One hundred and fifty-one people died and 982 others were injured.
The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake (Chinese: 海原大地震; pinyin: Hǎiyuán dà dìzhèn) occurred on December 16 in Haiyuan County, Ningxia Province, Republic of China at 19:05:53. It was also called the 1920 Gansu earthquake[3] because Ningxia was a part of Gansu Province when the earthquake occurred. It caused destruction in the Lijunbu ...
Active. Earthquakes. ~174-374 AD, 1092 AD, 1920, 1927, 2022. Type. sinistral strike-slip fault. The Haiyuan Fault is a major active intracontinental strike-slip (sinistral) fault in Central Asia. [1] The major fault structures in the Tibetan Plateau, the Haiyuan Fault is located within the Eurasian Plate.
The earthquake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles) in Gansu’s Jishishan county, about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the provincial boundary with Qinghai, the China ...
Gansu officials said their search and rescue effort had basically been completed by mid-afternoon Tuesday. The province’s death toll remained at 113 and the number of injured rose to 782.
Chinese authorities worry that high altitude and cold weather will exacerbate the impact of a deadly earthquake in Gansu province. ‘All-Out’ Rescue Efforts Underway in Northwest China as ...
1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake. / 35.0; 105.2. An earthquake occurred on June 19, 1718, in Tongwei County, Gansu Province, Qing dynasty, present-day China. The estimated surface wave magnitude (M s ) 7.5 earthquake was designated a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X ( Extreme ), causing tremendous damage and killing 73,000 people.
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 ...