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Deformation Relics of the 1556 Huaxian Great Earthquake and Paleoseismicity of the Huashan Frontal Fault Zone
Seismology and Geology
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Natural disasters · 23 January 1556Open article references →
1556 Huaxian Earthquake
Huaxian earthquake and Weinan fault area · China
Why editors use it hereField study of deformation remains and active faults used to locate and reconstruct the historical earthquake.
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During the night of 23 January 1556, a major earthquake struck the Wei River basin in Ming China, with its most severe effects around Huaxian in Shaanxi.
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Trigger and conditions
Strong fault movement along the southeastern Weihe Graben produced violent shaking and surface deformation.
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Uncertainty
No instrument measured the earthquake.
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Why it matters
Huaxian is a defining example of how geology, settlement patterns, vulnerable construction, and cascading hunger and disease combine in disaster.
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