1966 Xingtai earthquakes

Series of earthquakes affecting Hebei, China Xingtai earthquake 1966-03-22 08:19:36 iscgem849480 849480 March 22, 1966 16:19:36 1966_Xingtai_Earthquake.svg 20 km 37 04 N 114 29 E inline,title 6.8 w y (strongest quake) People's Republic of China 10Significant Earthquake Database https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/4364 National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA 10.7289/V5TD9V7K 1966 Data Set 8,064 dead, 38,000 injured The Xingtai earthquake (邢 台 大 地 震 Xíngtái Dà Dìzhèn) was a sequence of major earthquakes that took place between March 8 and March 29, 1966, in the area administered by the prefecture-level city of Xingtai in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. The first earthquake with magnitude 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and epicenter in Longyao County occurred in the early morning of March 8, 1966. It was followed by a sequence of five earthquakes above magnitude 6 that lasted until March 29, 1966. The strongest of these quakes had a magnitude of 6.8 and took place in the southeastern part of Ningjin County on March 22.http://kepu.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/english/quake/outline/otl05.html China Virtual Museum – Earthquakes 2008-12-29 2008-05-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20080521035839/http://kepu.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/english/quake/outline/otl05.html dead The earthquake damage included 8,064 dead, 38,000 injured and more than 5 million destroyed houses.http://houston.china-consulate.org/eng/nv/t439315.htm "Major earthquakes on Chinese mainland since 1966" by the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Houston 2008-12-29 2011-09-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20110927111514/http://houston.china-consulate.org/eng/nv/t439315.htm dead Earthquakes Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Time (UTC) Latitude Longitude Depth Magnitude Source 1966-03-07 21:29:19 37.156° N 114.875° E 20 km mi 0 on 6.5 (w) Hebei 1966 iscgem849021 M 6.5 – Hebei, China 2018-06-19 cs1 1966-03-22 08:11:37 37.535° N 115.039° E 20 km mi 0 on 6.2 (w) Hebei 1966 iscgem849479 M 6.2 – Hebei, China 2018-06-19 cs1 1966-03-22 08:19:36 37.545° N 115.061° E 20 km mi 0 on 6.8 (w) Hebei 1966 iscgem849480 M 6.8 – Hebei, China 2018-06-19 cs1 1966-03-26 15:19:04 37.714° N 115.275° E 20 km mi 0 on 6.0 (w) Hebei 1966 iscgem849601 M 6.0 – Hebei, China 2018-06-19 cs1 1966-03-29 12:00:00 37.464° N 115.127° E 20 km mi 0 on 6.0 (w) Hebei 1966 iscgem849686 M 6.0 – Hebei, China 2018-06-19 cs1 See also List of earthquakes in 1966 List of earthquakes in China References Category:Earthquakes in Hebei Xingtai Xingtai