During the earthquake, the sky shook and the earth shook, landslides and ground fissures broke, mountains became ravines, and plains rose to hills. In some areas, villages and towns are completely buried underground. Haiyuan city, located in the epicenter, was completely razed to the ground, with 73,027 people killed, nine times out of ten injured and 4 1 638 livestock killed. Guyuan County, located in the southeast of Haiyuan, the urban area has also become a piece of rubble, rocks have collapsed, rivers have been flooded by black water, and cracks are everywhere. More than 30,000 people died in the county, and more than 60,000 livestock died. In Jingning, south of Haiyuan, the ground cracked and the city was razed to the ground. More than 20 villages were overturned, more than 9,000 people were killed, more than 7,000 people were injured and 37,986 livestock were crushed to death. Most houses in Huining County collapsed, resulting in 13942 deaths. In Tongwei County, houses in urban and rural areas collapsed, the ground cracked, and water surged and sand surged, killing more than 65,438+100,000 people and injuring 30,000 people. Houses in urban and rural areas in Longde have dried up, and in some places even mountains and rivers are offset and peaks and valleys are reversed. The eastern and western mountain passes in the northwest villages and towns suddenly merged, and more than 300 families were buried in the mountainside. More than 20,000 people died in the county, and more than 50,000 livestock died. Tianshui is trapped in a mountain seam, and the flat land becomes a river, and the water is feasible. More than 2,400 people were killed inside and outside the city. The shanzhai in Jingyuan County was completely destroyed, landslides and black water gushed, and its "Liujiazhai Mountain" fell into the ground and became a sand ditch. Five miles from this mountain, an ancient city rises from the ground, about three hectares. The wall is three feet high inside and five feet high outside, surrounded by castles on all sides, but there is no ridge. "There were 3 159 1 person casualties in the county, and 244,004 livestock died. Houses in urban and rural areas of Lanzhou were destroyed by the earthquake, killing more than 3,000 people and 7,000 livestock. In addition, affected by this strong earthquake, large areas in Gansu, Ningxia and Shaanxi provinces suffered heavy losses, with thousands to hundreds of casualties. Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Tianjin, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places have different degrees of earthquake, and some places are slightly damaged.
At present, there is no exact statement about the number of people killed in this earthquake. Some people estimate that the total death toll is more than 300,000, and the number of livestock deaths caused by the earthquake is more than 654.38+700,000, resulting in incalculable economic losses. It was the middle of winter, and the survivors of the earthquake were hungry and cold, crying everywhere, being disabled everywhere, and suffered a strange disaster. The vast disaster area is shrouded in darkness.