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The Deadliest Earthquake Ever Recorded
History Channel ^ | February 6, 2023 (original September 8, 2017) | Becky Little

Posted on 02/11/2023 10:24:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv

Estimates say it killed 830,000 people.

Humans have documented earthquakes for nearly 4,000 years. Of those recorded, the deadliest occurred in China. On January 23, 1556, a powerful quake rocked the province of Shaanxi and the neighboring province of Shanxi, killing an estimated 830,000 people.

Historical records often refer to the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake as the Jiajing Great Earthquake because it occurred during Emperor Jiajing’s reign in the Ming dynasty. The approximate death toll comes from local annals that also tracked 26 earthquakes in the region. In those records, the earthquake is starkly different from others: they describe leveled mountains, floods, fires that burned for days and a drastically altered landscape. The annals estimated that some counties lost about 60 percent of their population.

Even though the death toll is in question, the Shaanxi earthquake is considered the deadliest earthquake because its casualties are much higher than any other disaster. (The second deadliest recorded earthquake next to Shaanxi was the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed an estimated 230,000 people across Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.)

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 1556; china; earthquake; earthquakes; emperorjiajing; godsgravesglyphs; mingdynasty; quake; quakes; shaanxi; shanxi
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1 posted on 02/11/2023 10:24:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 02/11/2023 10:25:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

How many people in that region now? I’m waiting for Yellowstone to blow.


3 posted on 02/11/2023 10:27:38 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting.


4 posted on 02/11/2023 10:27:49 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Global warming, uhh, climate change.


5 posted on 02/11/2023 10:29:23 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I’ve been hearing Yellowstone is “overdue” my whole life.


6 posted on 02/11/2023 10:32:24 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting.


7 posted on 02/11/2023 10:33:39 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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8 posted on 02/11/2023 10:34:05 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: gibsonguy

“I’ve been hearing Yellowstone is “overdue” my whole life.”

Not overdue yet but we only have a few data points and scant knowledge on this stuff.

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/yellowstone-overdue-eruption-when-will-yellowstone-erupt


9 posted on 02/11/2023 10:36:06 AM PST by plain talk
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I’ve been hearing Yellowstone is “overdue” my whole life.

Your great grandchildren will probably say the same thing.

10 posted on 02/11/2023 10:37:56 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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11 posted on 02/11/2023 10:38:48 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

New Madrid, San Andreas, and Yellowstone are all overdue. What if they all went at once?


12 posted on 02/11/2023 10:42:26 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: drSteve78

I was shocked to see the talking head (MSNBC I think?) attribute the earthquake to global warming.

Unreal. The stupid burns!


13 posted on 02/11/2023 10:51:55 AM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: vetvetdoug

Yellowstone release energy every day like clockwork, if the boiling pots stopped for say 500 years would be concerned.
New Madrid has had large for what it earthquakes for at least 400 years. San Andreas, like its virtual city scape, is targeted at its worthless neighbors.


14 posted on 02/11/2023 11:02:41 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: vetvetdoug

The one I’m most concerned about is the Cascadia Subduction Zone. That could kill a lot of people in the Pacific NW.


15 posted on 02/11/2023 11:12:09 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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Tang-Shaun in Northern China, 1976, was a nasty piece of work....over 250,000 dead i believe..


16 posted on 02/11/2023 11:13:48 AM PST by basalt (qb's)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Well, is you live another 10 to 15 thousand years or more, you might get lucky to see it.


17 posted on 02/11/2023 11:13:56 AM PST by crz
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To: SunkenCiv

We could use another massive one in China now.


18 posted on 02/11/2023 11:16:41 AM PST by CletusVanDamme (The breaking point will be reached soon. )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

And when it blows, goodbye North America - maybe all of the America’s.

It’ll be that big.


19 posted on 02/11/2023 11:18:01 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: vetvetdoug

You nail something I’ve been thinking about for awhile.

I can absolutely see that scenario play out.


20 posted on 02/11/2023 11:19:09 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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