The 1556 earthquake that killed an estimated 830,000 people in the Shaanxi Province is but the deadliest example of China’s long history with the natural disaster. The 1920 Haiyuan quake killed ...

Fault lines: a section of the Haiyuan fault that was ruptured by the 1920 earthquake. (Courtesy: Liu-Zeng Jing) On 16 December 1920 at about 7 p.m. local time, a magnitude-7.9 earthquake ripped along ...

On Dec. 16, 1920, an 8.5-magnitude quake ripped through dozens of counties in northwest China, with Haiyuan at the epicenter. The earthquake claimed the lives of over 270,000 people, making it one ...

The Haiyuan landslides, triggered by the Gansu earthquake on December 16, 1920, are considered the deadliest in recorded history. The earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.5, caused massive landslides ...