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On this day - 1556 (world's deadliest earthquake); January 23rd
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Monday, January 23, 1556. : The world's deadliest earthquake on record, in which over 800,000 died, occurred in China

On the morning of 23 January 1556, an earthquake hit Shaanxi, China. Approximately 830,000 people were killed in the deadliest earthquake on record to date. Over 97 counties in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected, with some counties reporting losses of 60% of the population.

Many of the people lived in artificial caves in loess cliffs, loess being the silty soil that windstorms deposited on the Loess plateau, which covers almost all of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. Landslides brought on by the quake destroyed many of the soft loess clay caves.


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