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1556 Shaanxi earthquake

Magnitude 8 Earthquake (23 Janaury 1556) in Shaanxi, China; regarded as deadliest earthquake in recorded history
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1556 Shaanxi earthquake

Summary

1556 Shaanxi earthquake is an earthquake[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of earthquake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (335 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake is located in Shaanxi[3].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake is in the country of Ming dynasty[4].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's instance of is recorded as earthquake[5].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's locator map image is recorded as Shaanxi 1556 earthquake map of provinces.png[6].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's location is recorded as Hua County[7].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's Commons category is recorded as Earthquakes of 1556[8].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's point in time is recorded as +1556-01-23T00:00:00Z[9].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 34.5, 'lon': 109.7}[10].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04v2z4[11].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+830000'}[12].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+100000'}[13].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as event/Shaanxi-province-earthquake-of-1556[14].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's earthquake magnitude on the moment magnitude scale is recorded as {'amount': '+8.0'}[15].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's earthquake magnitude on the Richter magnitude scale is recorded as {'amount': '+8'}[16].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's modified Mercalli intensity scale is recorded as Mercalli scale XI[17].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's vertical depth is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+32'}[18].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["HistoricalEvent", "ShaanxiEarthquakeKillsApproximately830000"][19].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's fault is recorded as Qinling Fault[21].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's fault is recorded as Shanxi Rift System[22].
  • 1556 Shaanxi earthquake's fault is recorded as Ordos Block[23].

Why It Matters

1556 Shaanxi earthquake ranks in the top 3% of earthquake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (335 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

Ming dynasty

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . sxdzj.gov.cn. sxdzj.gov.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . sxdzj.gov.cn. sxdzj.gov.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Strong earthquake activity and active blocks in mainland China. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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