several major earthquakes recorded in the Xichang Stele Forest:
1. In 1536 (February 28, 1536 (February 28, Jiajing, Ming Dynasty), an estimated magnitude 7 or above occurred in Xichang (Ningyuanfu), with an epicenter at 28.1° north latitude and 102.2° east longitude. The houses in the city basically collapsed, and countless casualties were killed or injured. caused landslides and cracks, groundwater gushed out, flooding the farmland. This is a devastating disaster.
Mianning County suffered serious losses, affecting most of Sichuan. The aftershock has not stopped until June 20th. The mountains collapsed and the ground was roaring like thunder. The officials' halls, houses, prisons, warehouses and military and civilian buildings collapsed and filled, crushing nearly 10,000 military, civilian, merchants, and other military, and merchants, were killed, and countless injured.
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2, 1732 (1st day of the first lunar month of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty) Xichang , affected m Yi, huili , Shounan, Kunming, Yunnan, Yiliang and other places. All the yamen and government offices... all the city gates collapsed and filled, crushing thousands of households, hundreds of households, military and civilian merchants and other merchants to death, killing nearly 10,000 people, and countless injured. There are ground cracks and swelling, and the water swells three, four or five feet. In the area of Guangfu Temple in Lushan, an earthquake collapsed, and the fields built by Duan's family were all turned into the sea after 028 years. In
3 and 1850 (August 11, Daoguang), an estimated 7 or above earthquake occurred in Xichang. According to records, most of the houses collapsed. Inside and outside the city and in various villages, except for those who were crushed to death, there were 27,880 households, more than 135,000 victims, 26,106 tiled houses and thatched houses of residents collapsed, and 20,652 people were killed.
aftershocks lasted until September 19. The earthquake also caused major casualties and damage to buildings in Huili County, and shattered 1,838 private houses in Huili County and killed 2,878 people.
It is now 172 years since 2022.
