The most destructive earthquake in China's history.

Time:1920 65438+February 16 20: 05: 53.

Venue: Haiyuan County, Ningxia (36.5 degrees north latitude, 0/05.7 degrees east longitude)

Disaster: The magnitude is 8.5, causing more than 240,000 deaths and destroying four cities. It is called the "global earthquake".

The landslide left the living room two or three miles away from the mountain.

? /kloc-more than 0/00 people died in a cave, and more than 300 people were buried in the same grave.

The dead were buried a hundred miles away, and the wounded wailed on the broken wall. The scene was terrible.

1920 12.26, an earthquake of magnitude 8.5 occurred in Haiyuan county at the junction of Gansu and Ningxia in northwest China. During the ten-minute frantic earthquake, it started from Guyuan in the east, passed through Xiji, Haiyuan and Jingning, and reached Jingtai in the west. Landslides, ground fissures, houses collapsed, mountains and rivers changed, and the land was robbed.

The earthquake was felt in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Saigon, Vietnam.

The intensity of the earthquake zone 12 degrees, Haiyuan, Guyuan, Jingning and Xiji counties were all destroyed. Except for a bell tower, all other buildings, cliff caves and arch caves in Haiyuan County collapsed, and residents were crushed under rubble and clods, killing and injuring nine times out of ten. Most of them were killed and almost all the villages were buried.

The people in the earthquake-stricken areas "have no clothes, no food, no shelter, and the tragic situation of displacement is unbearable and unbearable;" Many people who suffer hardships rely on fire pits to keep warm, with thin clothes and nothing to do all day. They endure cold and strong winds, endure cold and hunger, sleep in the cold, crawl to help the wounded, cry everywhere, and they will freeze to death. " The bones of a large number of victims are scattered all over the field, and there are too many bodies to be buried. Within dozens of miles, people were cut off, and chickens and dogs disappeared.

At that time, the Beiyang warlord * * did not take effective measures to rescue the disaster, and the victims did not cry, further aggravating the disaster, and nearly 240,000 people died.

This unprecedented disaster shocked the world, and Haiyuan earthquake became a major earthquake that attracted worldwide attention.

The recent Zhangbei Shangyi earthquake also occurred in the severe winter, but with the support of * * and the people of the whole country, no one was frozen to death or frostbite in the cold of MINUS 30-40 degrees Celsius, which is really a world of difference.

19201216 at 20: 06: 09, a rare earthquake of magnitude 8.5 occurred in Haiyuan, Ningxia, China, killing more than 240,000 people. It was called "global earthquake" in history.

In an instant, the sky thundered and thundered, like a horde whistling; The earth was completely out of control in the crazy shaking.

In just ten minutes, more than 70 prosperous towns disappeared without a trace, and everything here was gone. ...

The energy released by the earthquake was particularly large, and the strong vibration lasted for more than ten minutes. The earthquake was recorded by 96 seismic stations in the world.

In Tokyo, Japan, even seismographs with magnification only 12 times recorded seismic surface waves around the earth.

Haiyuan earthquake has a wide range and a rare history.

According to relevant data, during the earthquake, Beijing "lights dizzy"; Shanghai "clock stops, hanging lights shake"; Guangzhou "Lost Plaster Tablets"; Shantou "passenger ship swaying"; Hong Kong "most people feel the earthquake"; It felt more than half of China, and even at the observatory near Haiphong, there was a phenomenon of "stopping the clock".

Haiyuan earthquake is equivalent to dropping 1200 Hiroshima atomic bombs in an instant! According to the investigation and analysis of seismologists later, the damage degree of this earthquake was even stronger than the magnitude of 8.5 confirmed at that time, because the macro-intensity of Haiyuan dry salt pond, which was the most seriously damaged, actually reached 12 degrees, and the aftershocks lasted for three years ... This is the biggest earthquake in China history and the most terrible earthquake in the world so far!

After Haiyuan was suddenly destroyed, the powerful shock wave did not seem to be completely released.

A long seismic belt climbed the earth twice and a half times.

The scope of the earthquake zone is unprecedented. It starts from Guyuan in the east, passes through Xiji, Haiyuan, Jingyuan and other counties, and reaches Jingtai County in the west. More than 20,000 square kilometers have almost become a no-man's land.

Dozens of counties in central, eastern and southern Gansu were all swept away.

In addition, eight provinces including Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Shanxi, Suiyuan, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan also suffered large-scale disasters.

It was not until the second year after the earthquake that China released an explosive figure to the world: 234 1 17 people died, accounting for 56% of the total number of people in the disaster area.

In Haiyuan County, the epicenter, 73,604 people died, accounting for more than two-thirds of the county's actual population.