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This Day in History - January 23, 1556 - World's deadliest earthquake occurs in China - a 520 mile-wide area was destroyed. (I wonder what the Richter Scale magnitude would have been....?)

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World's Deadliest Earthquake

January 23, 1556

The world's deadliest earthquake in recorded history occurs, in Shaanxi, China killing 830,000 people. An 520 mile-wide (840-kilometre) area was destroyed, and in some counties as much as 60% of the population was killed.