1946 Hsinhua earthquake

Earthquake in Taiwan 1946 Hsinhua earthquake 1946-12-04 22:46:53 898682 iscgem898682 1946 12 05 06:47 Taiwan 6.1 l y 5 km on 23.1 N 120.3 E inline,title Taiwan, Republic of China 74 dead 9Significant Earthquake Information https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/3841 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 27 December 2021 The 1946 Hsinhua earthquake (1946年新化大地震 1946 nián Xīnhuà dà dìzhèn), also referred to as the 1946 Tainan earthquake (1946年台南大地震 1946 nián Táinán dà dìzhèn) was a magnitude 6.1 earthquake which hit Tainan County (now part of Tainan City), Taiwan, on 5 December 1946, at 06:47. The quake claimed 74 lives and was the eighth deadliest earthquake in twentieth century Taiwan. Earthquake The 6.1 ML earthquake struck at 06:47 CST on Thursday 5 December 1946, as people in the area were waking up and preparing breakfast. The epicentre was in Hsinhua in the centre of Tainan County at a relatively shallow depth of 5 km mi 0; the rupture responsible was the Hsinhua fault (新化斷層 Xīnhuà duàncéng). Government geologists in Taiwan believe this fault may have been active a number of times during the (current) Holocene era.http://www.moeacgs.gov.tw/english/project/project_earthquake.jsp Earthquake Geologic Investigation And Data Bank Compilation on Active Faults Central Geological Survey, Ministry of Economic Affairs https://web.archive.org/web/20090711205332/http://www.moeacgs.gov.tw/english/project/project_earthquake.jsp 2009-07-11 live 2009-08-08 There was one major aftershock, on December 17, which measured 5.7 on the Richter scale but caused no additional casualties.http://scman.cwb.gov.tw/eqv5/research/21vol/MOTC-CWB-87-E-11.pdf 台灣地區十大災害地震圖集 (A Collection of Images of Ten Great Earthquake Disasters in the Taiwan Region) Chinese Preface Central Weather Bureau 中央氣象局 https://web.archive.org/web/20110826205454/http://scman.cwb.gov.tw/eqv5/research/21vol/MOTC-CWB-87-E-11.pdf 2011-08-26 dead 2009-08-08 Damage According to Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau, there were 74 people killed by the quake, with 200 people seriously injured and 274 lightly injured. 1,971 dwellings were completely destroyed, while a further 2,084 dwellings were partially destroyed. Soil liquefaction and sand boils were observed in central Tainan County, and there was widespread damage to railways, roads, farmland, water pipes and bridges. As the disaster came just a year into the new Kuomintang rule in Taiwan, it served as a test for the new government. It was the most serious earthquake in Tainan County in 84 years.http://scman.cwb.gov.tw/eqv5/damage_list/1900befor.htm Central Weather Bureau 2009-07-20 二十世紀前(1604–1900)台灣地區的地震記載 https://web.archive.org/web/20101214012839/http://scman.cwb.gov.tw/eqv5/damage_list/1900befor.htm 2010-12-14 deadhttp://scman.cwb.gov.tw/eqv5/damage_list/1900after.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20041017024155/http://scman.cwb.gov.tw/eqv5/damage_list/1900after.htm dead 2004-10-17 zh:二十世紀(1901–2000)台灣地區災害性地震 Central Weather Bureau 2009-07-17 Chinese See also List of earthquakes in 1946 List of earthquakes in Taiwan References External links 898682 Hsinhua Earthquake, 1946 Hsinhua Category:History of Tainan Category:Earthquakes in Taiwan