1on March 8, 966, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 occurred in Xingtai, which affected Shijiazhuang, causing casualties and house collapse. Xingtai earthquake consists of two major earthquakes:15: 29 on March 8, 966, 14 seconds. A major earthquake occurred in Longyao County, Xingtai District, Hebei Province, with a strong epicenter intensity of 9 degrees.

1March 22, 966 16: 00/9: 46, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred in Ningjin County, Xingtai District, Hebei Province, with the epicenter intensity of 10 degrees. Two earthquakes caused 8064 deaths, 38,000 injuries and economic losses of 654.38 billion yuan. This is a big earthquake after a long drought. After the earthquake, it snowed all over the sky.

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Xingtai earthquake destroyed a large area. It instantly attacked six regions in Hebei Province, including Xingtai, Shijiazhuang, Hengshui, Handan, Baoding and Cangzhou, 80 counties and cities, 1.639 townships and 1.7633 villages, resulting in 8064 deaths, 384565438+0 injuries and 5.08 million houses collapsed.

1During the earthquake of magnitude 7.2 on March 22nd, 966, there were 36 landslides1time in Xingtai, Shijiazhuang, Handan and Baoding, and 22 fires were caused by the impact of landslides and flying stones, which burned 3,000 mu of forest. After the earthquake, secondary fires kept happening.

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