August 14, 1068 Earthquake: Cangzhou, Hejian, Hebei Province, China

August 14, 1068, 38.5 N, 116.1 E, in and around Cangzhou

and Hejian, Hebei Province, magnitude 6, intensity VIII.

General situation: Violent earthquakes followed continuous heavy rains in Hebel. At Loulu, many

civilian houses collapsed, all city walls fell and

many officials and civilians were killed.

Cangzhou and Mozhou prefectures (near present-day

Renqiu): Official and private houses, city walls and

warehouses 'were destroyed.

Yingzhou Prefectures (the seat of its local government

was located at the present-day Hejian): City walls

and houses were destroyed.

Dingzhou Prefecture (the seat of its local government

was located at the present-day Dingxian): All city

walls and warehouses collapsed.

Yutian: The Pagoda for Buddhist relics inJingye Temple

was destroyed.

The earthquake also struck Beijing, and Shenxian and

Wangdu, Hebei Province as well as Kaifeng, Henan

Province. Earth quaked at Dong'e and Dongping,

Shandong Province all the day in August ("in'

August" may have been Incorrect.) Shocks occurred

dozens of times every day for over half a year. The

farthest location where the shock was recorded

was as far as 430 km from the epicenter.

Note: At that time, the Hebei covered a great part of

the present-day Hebei Province and parts of the

areas north of the Yellow River in the presentday

Hebei and Shandong provinces. The

disaster was related to the waterlogging due to

continuous heavy rains.

(above from reference #3939)

Reference #1052 lists August 14, 1068, Hopeh, 38.5 N, 116.1 E, magnitude 6, intensity VIII.

Reference #1096 lists September 1068, Che li, Siu Tchen Tong Ngo, many deaths.