Was there a big earthquake in ancient Xi?

According to Huayin County Chronicle: 1556 65438+ On October 23rd (December 12th, the thirty-fourth year of Ming Jiajing), at midnight, the mountains rang, the ground shook, collapsed everywhere, the ground was flooded, and houses collapsed, killing more than ten people in Datong (now Dali County) and Hua (now huayin city).

The severely affected area is 280,000 square kilometers. The famous died 80,000 to 30,000, and the unnamed ones could not be counted. Xiyue Temple was destroyed, and all the temples in Huayin were destroyed. Since ancient times, there has never been such a disaster, which is the most serious earthquake disaster in the world.

1556 65438+1On October 23rd, a strong earthquake of magnitude 8 occurred in hua county, Shaanxi Province. This earthquake is an extremely serious disaster in China's historical records, and the number of deaths is rare at all times, at home and abroad. The earthquake damaged 10 1 county, covering about 280,000 square kilometers in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Shanxi and Henan provinces.

The epicentre is Weinan, hua county, Huayin, Tongguan, Chaoyi and Yongji counties in Shaanxi Province, about 2,700 square kilometers east of xi. The earthquake left houses, government offices, temples and colleges in ruins. Tall buildings, towers, pagodas and palaces all collapsed. The earthquake caused Maqiao fault in Huayin county in the west, and the ground fissure in Dayuan village in the north of the city was several feet, and the water gushed several feet.

The great customs clearance on the south bank of the Yellow River and the Zhou Pu levee all collapsed. The stone spring in Fenggu Mountain in hua county has turned into a dry spring.

Extended data:

Xi 'an is located between the two largest seismic belts in the world, namely, the Mediterranean Himalayan seismic belt and the Pacific Rim seismic belt. Because Xi 'an is the Loess Plateau to the north and the Qinling Mountains to the south, that is to say, Xi 'an is not in those two major earthquake zones, but it is still on the edge of the Qinling earthquake zone.

On June 5, 2009, an earthquake of magnitude 4.4 occurred in Xi 'an. On October 30th, 20091Beijing time, an earthquake with a magnitude of 1.9 occurred in Gaoling County (34.5 north latitude and109 east longitude).

On the evening of October 20th, 2009 1 18: 08, an earthquake of magnitude 3.0 occurred at the junction of Xi 'an Gaoling and Lintong, with a focal depth of 6 kilometers, which was obviously felt by some people in the urban area.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Huashan Earthquake