Earthquake south of Kangding in Sichuan 1786

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The earthquake in the south of Kangding in Sichuan in 1786 ( Chinese  1786 年 四川 康定南 地震 , Pinyin 1786 nian Sichuan Kangding nan dizhen yiji ) is also known as the Kangding-Luding earthquake . The severe earthquake occurred on June 1, 1786 in the south of the district of Kangding (or Dardo) or in Kangding and Luding (both in Garzê ). Many thousands of people were killed in the earthquake.

Dam break

The Dadu He River, which was dammed up by a landslide, caused an even bigger disaster after the dam broke. 100,000 people are said to have died.

literature

  • Zhang Bangshen (1800): Jinli xinbian (New History of Sichuan). Chengdu: Bashu shushe 1984.
  • Schuster, RL and GF Wieczorek, "Landslide triggers and types" in Landslides: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Landslides 2002 AA Balkema Publishers.
  • FC Dai, CF Lee, JH Deng, LG Tham: The 1786 earthquake-triggered landslide dam and subsequent dam-break flood on the Dadu River, southwestern China . In: Geomorphology . tape 65 , no. 3–4 , February 2005, pp. 205-221 , doi : 10.1016 / j.geomorph.2004.08.011 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ And also after a third place Moxi: ( Chinese  康定 —— 泸 定 —— 磨 西 ).
  2. ↑ J. Rybar: Landslides. CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 978-9-058-09393-6 , p. 66. Restricted preview in Google Book Search

Coordinates: 29 ° 33 '0 "  N , 101 ° 32' 52.8"  E