1038 Dingxiang earthquake

Earthquake in China 1038 Dingxiang earthquake China yes 1038 01 09 s y 7.25 38.4 112.92 region:ID_type:event inline,title China X 32,300 dead The 1038 Dingxiang earthquake devastated present-day Shanxi Province, northern China on 9 January. At least 32,300 people died across the province when the s 7.25 earthquake struck Dingxiang and Xinxian counties.Ziqun Min Chinese Historical Catalog from 2300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. 1995 Seismological Press Beijing 514 zh In Xinzhou, about 19,742 people died and 5,655 were injured. More than 50,000 livestock also perished. About 759 were killed in Guoxian County and in present-day Taiyuan, 1,890 people died.National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 1972 https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/327 16 January 2024 10.7289/V5TD9V7K National Geophysical Data Center NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Geology The Xizhoushan Fault Zone, a strike-slip fault system within the Shanxi Rift System, may have been responsible for the earthquake. Field studies indicate at least three earthquakes occurred along the fault during the Holocene with the most recent event possibly being the 1038 earthquake. This fault delineates the Xizhoushan Mountains and Xinding basin within the rift system. Estimates of the right-lateral slip rate range from 5.86–5.22 mm per year to as low as 2 mm per year during the Holocene. At least 60 km of surface rupture along the fault was associated with the earthquake.ZhongyuanYu Yin Na Wang Chengyang Deng Miao Lan Weiguang Active tectonics, paleoseismology and seismic hazards of the piedmont Xizhoushan Fault Zone in the Shanxi graben system, North China Block Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2021 205 10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104590 Triggering of earthquakes in the rift system may have been due to the combined effects of coulomb stress transfer and long-term tectonic stress. In the case of the 1038 event, it was promoted by stress transfer from a previous s 7.5 earthquake in 512 AD. This may have in turn promoted the s 6.5 earthquake near Taiyuan in 1102.Li Ping’en Liao Li Liu Pan Feng Jianzhou Guo Xiangyun Numerical Simulation of Relationship between Stress Field Evolution and Historical Strong Earthquakes in the Shanxi Seismic Zone Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2018 108 5A 2389–2407 10.1785/0120170378 See also List of earthquakes in China List of historical earthquakes References Category:Earthquakes in Shaanxi Category:11th century in China Category:1030s in Asia Category:1038 Category:11th-century earthquakes