June 19, 1718 Earthquake: Gansu Province, China

June 19, 1718, S of Tongwei, Gansu Province, 35 N, 105.2 E, magnitude 7.5, intensity X.

Tongwei: The fiat ground warped and fissured northwest

of the town, yellow sand and black mud gushed out, especially so in Nanxiang Village. All government offices, the Confucian school, temples and the National Altar were destroyed, and all official and civilian houses collapsed. Only a corner of the northeastern brick city walls remained.

Officials and civilians moved to Xiguan. A peak of Mt. Bijia north of the town slid, and most earth hills broke. More than 40,000 people were killed in the city and the villages.

Ganyu: The north hills moved southward burying several thousand civilian houses in Dazhenghuan Village of Yongning, most houses in Lixin (northwest of the town) and all houses in the villages northwest of the town. More than thirty thousand people were killed or injured.

Jingning: All gate towers, battlements, Sshools, official

buildings and civilian houses collapsed. The front of Mt, Nanwutai broke, a landslide at Zhipingchuan (35 km south of the Prefecture) dammed the river, several thousand people were killed.

Zhuanglang: The southern part of the city wall collapsed. Anzi Hill in the southwest slid, killing more than a thousand people, and rivers were blocked up.

Qin'an: All gate towers, pavilions and battlements

collapsed. Walls, halls and rooms in the Confucian Temple and a social-morals memorial arch were destroyed.

Tianshui: Houses and halls in the Confucian Temple

collapsed. Hills slumped and ground fissured. People were killed or injured.

Huining: The gate towers collapsed, battlements fell down, and walls were razed to the ground.

Xihe: Altars in the Confucian Temple toppled down. Stricken families were exempted from taxes.

Longde: Many people were killed.

Minxian and Lanzhou: Some people were killed or injured.

Huxian and Zhouzhi: Some people and livestock were killed.

In addition: The shock also struck Lintao, Longxi, Pingliang, Qingyang, Yinchuan, Qingshui in Gansu Province; Chengcheng, Fengxiang, Meixian, Xixiang, Zhen, ha, Wugong, Zhen'an in Shaanxl Province; Yicheng and Jiangxian; Wanquan in Shanxi Province;

Changyuan in Henan Province.

(above from reference #3939)

June 19, 1718, Kansu Province, 35 N, 105.2 E, magnitude 7.5, intensity X. (reference #1052)