A report on Earthquake and Shaanxi

Earthquake epicenters occur mostly along tectonic plate boundaries, and especially on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Global plate tectonic movement

Shaanxi People's Government

Aerial photo of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, northwest of Los Angeles

Shaanxi cuisine

Comparison of the 1985 and 2017 earthquakes on Mexico City, Puebla and Michoacán/Guerrero

Terracotta Army

Collapsed Gran Hotel building in the San Salvador metropolis, after the shallow 1986 San Salvador earthquake

Education Department of Shaanxi Province

Magnitude of the Central Italy earthquakes of August and October 2016 and January 2017 and the aftershocks (which continued to occur after the period shown here)

Shaanxi Science and Technology Museum

The Messina earthquake and tsunami took as many as 200,000 lives on December 28, 1908, in Sicily and Calabria.

Temple of the Chenghuangshen (City God) of Weinan.

1755 copper engraving depicting Lisbon in ruins and in flames after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which killed an estimated 60,000 people. A tsunami overwhelms the ships in the harbor.

Guangren Temple of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in Xi'an.

Damaged buildings in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 2010.

Road to the stupa of the Famen Temple (Chinese Buddhist).

Ruins of the Għajn Ħadid Tower, which collapsed in an earthquake in 1856

Temple of Xuanyuan in Huangling, Yan'an.

Fires of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

The tsunami of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

Earthquakes (M6.0+) since 1900 through 2017

Earthquakes of magnitude 8.0 and greater from 1900 to 2018. The apparent 3D volumes of the bubbles are linearly proportional to their respective fatalities.

An image from a 1557 book depicting an earthquake in Italy in the 4th century BCE

One of the most devastating earthquakes in history occurred near Hua Shan, in south-eastern part of Shaanxi Province on January 23, 1556, killing an estimated 830,000 people (see 1556 Shaanxi earthquake).

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One of the most devastating earthquakes in recorded history was the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake, which occurred on 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, China.

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Earthquake epicenters occur mostly along tectonic plate boundaries, and especially on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

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