Earthquake — China: Gansu Province, Shanxi Province

When

16 Dec 1920

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

8.3

Where

China

Coordinates

36.60° N, 105.32° E

Deaths

235502

Damage musd

25

Intensity mmi

12

Depth km

25

1920 earthquake in central China

The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake occurred in Haiyuan County, Ningxia Province, Republic of China at 19:05:53 (UTC+8) on 16 December 1920. It was also called the 1920 Gansu earthquake because Ningxia was a part of Gansu Province when the earthquake occurred. It caused destruction in the Lijunbu-Haiyuan-Ganyanchi area and was assigned the maximum intensity on the Mercalli intensity scale.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “An 8.2 Richter scale Haiyuan earthquake causes a landslide in Gansu Province, China, killing 273,000”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Erdbeben von Haiyuan mit der Stärke 7,8 auf der Richterskala erschüttert die Provinz Gansu in China und fordert mehr als 200.000 Todesopfer”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “землетрясение в Ганьсу унесло жизни свыше двухсот тысяч человек, из них около двадцати тысяч просто замёрзли, оставшись без крова”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la provincia de Gansu (China), un terremoto de 8,2 deja un saldo de 273 000 víctimas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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