1605 Qiongshan Earthquake
The 1605 Qiongshan earthquake (Chinese: 瓊山地震) occurred on 13 July (33rd year of reign of Emperor Wanli, May 28th in the Chinese lunar calendar) that struck Hainan and the adjacent Guangdong province in China with an estimated magnitude of 7.5 Ms with a maximum felt intensity of X (Extreme) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. It caused widespread damage, including the subsidence of large areas of farmland, swamping many villages and several thousand people were killed.
According to the Chinese records about the event, in the reign of the Wanli Emperor, "there was a thunderous sound, the public office collapsed and the houses collapsed, and thousands of the dead were crushed in the county" and "the corpse is covered in pillows, bloody, touches the heart, and spit in the sky.
References
- ^ Jichu, Jin; Hongzhen, Wang (March 1988). "The Qiongshan Earthquake of July 1605". Disasters. 12 (1): 22–36. Bibcode:1988Disas..12...22J. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7717.1988.tb01152.x. PMID 20958647.
- ^ National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database (1972). "Significant Earthquake Information". NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ^ From 萬曆瓊州府志,book 12,書目文獻出版社, 1990, "三十三年五月二十八日亥時地大震。自東北起聲如雷，公署民房崩倒殆盡，郡城中壓死者幾千"；"亥時忽然震動，初如奔車之輾，繼如風揶之顛。”"屍骸枕藉，腥血薰沾，觸目摧心，慟天流涕。”