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	Shaanxi Earthquake Encyclopedia Article @ Shuddered.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, China.
		The Shaanxi Earthquake occurred during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming dynasty.
		While it was the most deadly earthquake and the fifth deadliest natural disaster in history, there have been earthquakes with higher magnitudes.
	www.shuddered.net /encyclopedia/Shaanxi_Earthquake (746 words)

	10(m) Earthquakes
		An earthquake is a sudden vibration or trembling in the Earth.
		Earthquake motion is caused by the quick release of stored potential energy into the kinetic energy of motion.
		In 1556, a large earthquake in the Shanxi Province of China was estimated to have caused the death of about 1,000,000 people.
	www.physicalgeography.net /fundamentals/10m.html (1644 words)

	Texas Earthquakes - UTIG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The second biggest earthquake known, with a magnitude of 9.2, occurred in Alaska on 27 March 1964; it had a rupture length of 800 km, and caused as much as 11 meters of uplift.
		Suppose a hypothetical earthquake ruptures the entire 100 km thickness of the rigid tectonic plates, and suppose this rupture extends along a fault with length 1000 km with an average slip of 10 meters.
		Earthquakes produce waves that travel through the Earths's interior and which are recorded by seismographs, regardless of whether the quake occurs underwater or under land.
	www.ig.utexas.edu /research/projects/eq/faq/world.htm (1164 words)

	Sticky Story of the Week!
		The earthquake is estimated to be between 6.6 to 7.3 on the Richter scale.
		The earthquake lasted 45 seconds and destabilized the northern wall of Mount Huascarán, inducing a rock and snow avalanche and burying the towns of Yungay and Ranrahirca.
		The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the Northern Pakistan earthquake or South Asia earthquake) of 2005 was a major seismological disturbance that occurred at 08:50:38 Pakistan Standard Time (03:50:38 UTC 09:20:38 India Standard Time)08:50 local time (at epicentre) on October 8, 2005 with the epicenter in the Pakistan-administered region of the disputed territory of Kashmir.
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	AIRCurrents : 2006
		On January 23, 1556 the deadliest earthquake in history occurred in the Chinese province of Shaanxi.
		The 1556 earthquake, however, occurred in the Weihe Basin, which is an intraplate environment much like the New Madrid Seismic Zone of the U.S. The Weihe Basin is located south of the Ordos fault block, a micro-plate in northern China.
		However, the risk of earthquakes in the region remains high and significant losses are possible due the massive scale of new development in China's population centers.
	www.air-worldwide.com /_public/html/air_currentsitem.asp?ID=872 (762 words)

	Where can I find 1556 Shaanxi Earthquake information? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Re: Earthquake Research 2: That includes the Shaanxi earthquake in 1556, which claimed 830000 victims and is considered the world's deadliest.
		The Shaanxi Earthquake occurred mid the reign of the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming dynasty.
		The earthquake badly damaged populous of the Forest of Stone steles.
	en.1051.info /1556_Shaanxi_earthquake (850 words)

	CR.ed - Blue (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The earthquake, centred on Dudley in the West Midlands, measured 4.8 on the Richter scale and was small by global standards but the largest in the UK for ten years, shaking homes as far apart as Wales, Yorkshire, London and Wiltshire.
		It caused the Lisbon earthquake in Portugal in 1755.
		In China in 1556, Shanxi suffered an earthquake, estimated at 8.3 on the Richter scale.
	www.cr-ed.net.cob-web.org:8888 /cred/science/3154/blue.shtml (605 words)

	The Shaanxi Earthquake Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Occupy the Chinese capital Chang'an of the tang 830000 shanks earthquake 400000 Tangshan earthquake.
		An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the earth's surface.
		1556 shanks earthquake the shanks earthquake occurred on the morning of 14 February in a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia the most.
	www.earthquakesurvivaltactics.com /the-shaanxi-earthquake.html (832 words)

	Gerald Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Earthquakes are one of the terrible outcomes of nature.
		Across the span of time, earthquakes have been recorded for their incredible destructive forces, and their abilities to awe mankind with their unparalleled force.
		Earthquakes cause dreadful effects, most notable of which are property damage, loss of life and falling objects.
	www.osuokc.onenet.net /~engl1113n/SampleExam6.htm (747 words)

	This Dynamic Planet, Notable Events
		A M 9.1, second of only five earthquakes in the magnitude 9 range, all in a 12-year period, since global recording began around 1895.
		M 9.0+ earthquake ruptures >1000 km of subduction boundary; tsunamis kill a record >230,000, some deaths as distant as Africa.
		A median rift (tensional) valley, a central magnetic anomaly, and earthquakes characterize the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
	www.minerals.si.edu /tdpmap/bom/notables.htm (1833 words)

	timeline: china's earthquakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Earthquakes regularly rattle the vast Tibetan plateau, including Tibet itself, the far west region of Xinjiang and Qinghai province.
		A devastating 6.8 earthquake, the worst to strike the Xinjiang region in 5 decades, shakes China's remote northwest, killing at least 266 people, injuring more than 4,000 half of whom suffer severe injuries, and causing thousands of buildings to collapse near the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar.
		An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale rocks southwestern China in a mountainous part of Yunnan province approx.
	www.e11th-hour.org /resources/timelines/china.quakes.html (673 words)

	Earthquakes and Astrology Astrologer Ed Tamplin (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Earthquakes, like volcanic explosions are the result of a gradual intensification extending back thousands, perhaps even millions of years.
		In looking for an astrological signature to earthquakes, cyclones or volcanic eruptions, the positions of the planets of the solar system would have to be constantly noted, as well as sunspot activity, and any phenomena that seemed to connect the solar system to geophysical disturbances.
		The later research of Mathers on 900 earthquakes failed to replicate Tomaschek’s findings although he came to the conclusion that earthquakes were 50% more probable when Venus is within 10 degrees of the Sun.
	www.edtamplin.com.cob-web.org:8888 /articles/earthquake%202005.htm (2534 words)

	geol 250: earthquake hazards (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		During the 1964 Alaskan earthquake, as much as 200 meters of the bluff area in Turnagain Heights slid toward the ocean.
		The greatest destruction from an earthquake is often not done by ground vibrations but by subsequent fire caused by the earthquake (e.g.
		Fire hazards from an earthquake include: added fuel from chemicals, rubbers; fire services not alerted because of lack of information; roads blocked by earthquake damages; water in emergency tanks underground run out.
	ijolite.geology.uiuc.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /04FallClass/geo250/lectures/lect17_quakehaz.html (687 words)

	China Earthquake 1556 Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In an earthquake in Tsunami and earthquake facts deadliest earthquake ever recorded is believed to have occurred on January in Shansi China China Facts In an earthquake in Shensi killed over eight hundred thousand people.
		Earthquake Facts The most deadliest earthquake happened on Jan. in Shansi China with an estiment How many actual lives were killed we don't know.
		The largest recorded earthquake in the United States was a magnitude The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in in central China.
	isexianitifirsison.info /n-china/china-earthquake-1556-facts.php (531 words)

	1556 Shaanxi earthquake - China-related Topics AA-AD - China-Related Topics
		The Shanxi earthquake occurred on the morning of 14 February1556 in China, killing approximately 830,000 people.
		More than 97 counties in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected http://www.kepu.ac.cn/english/quake/ruins/rns03.html.
		It is the deadliest earthquake on record, though the number of fatalities is uncertain.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/1556_Shaanxi_earthquake (238 words)

	tsunamis: tsunamis travel fast but not at infinite speed \| briefing document
		Tsunami waves are distinguished from ordinary ocean waves [1] by their great length between peaks, often exceeding 100 miles in the deep ocean, and by the long amount of time between these peaks, ranging from five minutes to an hour.
		The Richter scale is a measure, or derivation, of the energy released by the quake.
		Earthquakes are caused by the two plates moving relative to each other, and volcanoes are formed when ocean crust, forced under the lighter continental crust, melts and then rises to the Earth's surface.
	www.abelard.org /briefings/tsunami.php (3190 words)

	Shaanxi Earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aftershocks continued several times a month for half a year [3].
		Huts, official houses, temples and city walls collapsed all of a sudden.
		This was the major contributing factor to the huge death toll.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1556_Shaanxi_earthquake (634 words)

	CNN - Turkish earthquake kills more than 2,000 - August 17, 1999
		Officials said more than 2,000 people were killed by the pre- dawn quake, which was centered near the industrial city of Izmit, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Turkey's largest city, Istanbul.
		A quake registering between 7 and 7.9 is considered a "major" earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage, said Bill Smith of the U.S. Geologic Survey.
		In the cities, the randomness of the earthquake's power was evident in areas where whole blocks of buildings collapsed, while in others a single completely collapsed building was surrounded by structures that were spared.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9908/17/turkey.quake.07/index.html (1020 words)

	clockworkfish: context
		Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan Provinces of China on February 2, 1556.
		Earthquake off the coast of Sanriku, Japan, in 1896, approximately 27,000 people were drowned when a tsunami hit the coast.
		A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Kanto Plain, Japan in 1923, destroyed an estimated 575,000 dwellings in Tokyo and Yokohama.
	www.stonesoup.co.nz /clockworkfish/archives/004543.html (701 words)

	The Shape of Days: Natural disasters in perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On December 28, 1908, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.5 destroyed the Italian city of Messina.
		On July 28, 1976, the Chinese city of Tangshan was destroyed in a magnitude 8.2 earthquake.
		The Indonesian earthquake was a massive event; it’s expected that after a significant geological event we should have to revise our maps, but this time we’re going to have to update our calendars.
	theshapeofdays.com /2004/12/natural_disaste.html (843 words)

	Sticky Story of the Week - Archives
		Most of America's big holidays have more-or-less self-explanatory purposes--to celebrate aspects of the Christian tradition, to honor the coming of the new year or the change of seasons, to remember the legacy of family members or noted historical figures.
		Shaanxi earthquake (1556) The Shanxi earthquake occurred on the morning of 14 February 1556 in China, killing approximately 830,000 people.
		More than 97 counties in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected.
	www.rungg.com /streetTeams/pages.php?goto=storiesArchives (952 words)

	Question: What's The Worst Natural Disaster, Ever? - Ex Isle Forums
		Although the earthquake was the fourth most powerful recorded since 1899, the likely death toll is lower than would have been the case if it had struck at a densely populated area.
		The deadliest known earthquake in history occurred in 1556 in Shaanxi, China, with an estimated death toll of 830,000, though figures from this time period may not be reliable).
		While there are historical earthquakes that were more deadly, the tsunami created appears to be the most deadly in recorded history.
	www.exisle.net /mb/index.php?showtopic=23723&st=0&p=495068&#entry495068 (1876 words)

	List of earthquakes - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This is a list of significant earthquakes as listed by the USGS.
		The 30 second long earthquake destroyed 95% of the city, located 30 km form the epicentre.
		Somoza mishandling of earthquake aid has been cited as a contributing factor to the Sandinista revolution; devastated largest city in Nicaragua (Managua)
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/List_of_earthquakes (534 words)

	Shaanxi Earthquake - GigaDictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		More than ninety seven counties in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected [1].
		In the winter of 1556 AD, an earthquake catastrophe occurred in the Shaanxi and Shaanxi Provinces.
		The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake, however, was not the worst disaster in Chinese history.
	gigadictionary.com /1556_Shaanxi_earthquake (679 words)

	Indian Ocean: Oceans of the World ~ Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean
		Following an earthquake off the coast of Sanriku, Japan, in 1896, approximately 27,000 people were drowned when a tsunami hit the coast.
		An earthquake that struck the Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan Provinces of China on February 2, 1556, is believed to have killed approximately 830,000.
		The highest earthquake death toll in modern times was caused by one that hit Tangshan, China, on July 28, 1976.
	oceansoftheworld.com /indian-ocean.html (710 words)

	Asian earthquake pales in comparison with natural disasters of the past - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The mammoth earthquake killed over 170 thousand people, and the number of victims is expected to grow as rescuers uncover more bodies from the rubble.
		The earthquake that rocked Southeast Asia was the strongest one since 1964, when a very strong quake measured 9.2 on the Richter scale occurred in Alaska.
		The Great China Earthquake, which took place in February of 1556 in Shanxi (China's Shensi Province), is considered the most destructive earthquake of all.
	english.pravda.ru /russia/history/10-01-2005/7573-quake-0 (815 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Tsunami among world's worst disasters
		China suffered similar losses when an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 almost obliterated the north-eastern city of Tangshan in 1976.
		The 1988 earthquake in Armenia, measuring 6.9, killed nearly 25,000.
		China's Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces lost an estimated 830,000 people when they were hit, in 1556, by one of the worst earthquakes in history.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/asia-pacific/4128509.stm (474 words)

	CNN.com - FACTBOX: Chronology of China's major earthquakes - Feb. 24, 2003
		China's most devastating earthquake in recorded history hit northern Shaanxi province in 1556, killing an estimated 830,000 people.
		February 1996: Earthquake measuring 7.0 wrecks scenic mountain town of Lijiang in Yunnan, killing at least 304 people and injuring more than 16,000.
		January 1998: At least 47 people are killed and more than 2,000 injured when an earthquake measuring 6.2 rocks Hebei, devastating mud and brick homes in two rural counties.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/24/china.quake.timeline.reut (438 words)

	Goldberg File on NRO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nonetheless, he was onto a question that's occurred to most of us at one point or another, "How come it seems like God keeps whipping the tar out of poor people?" It seems that whenever there's a natural disaster in some country lacking indoor plumbing, tens of thousands of people die.
		Far less people die in earthquakes today than they did in the past, even though billions more people live in cities made of concrete and steel and other things that hurt a lot more than grass and straw when they fall on your head.
		I would bet that if the earthquake that hit India this week, had hit Los Angeles, the deaths would be in the double digits, not over 20,000.
	www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg012901.shtml (1320 words)

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