BEIJING — An earthquake that killed greater than 120 folks in China this week was the nation’s deadliest in almost a decade.
Earthquakes occur most steadily in western China on the Tibetan Plateau or its fringes.
Sichuan province within the southwest has had a number of massive quakes together with by far the deadliest one in recent times in 2008, which killed almost 90,000 folks. The collapse of faculties and different buildings led to a yearslong effort to rebuild utilizing extra quake-resistant supplies.
Different lethal earthquakes have struck in Yunnan province to the south of Sichuan and in Qinghai and Gansu provinces.
This is a listing of main current earthquakes:
— Might 2008: A magnitude 7.9 earthquake leaves almost 90,000 folks useless or lacking and presumed useless in Sichuan province.
— April 2010: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake kills 2,698 folks in Qinghai province.
— April 2013: A magnitude 7.0 earthquake kills 196 folks in Sichuan.
— July 2013: A magnitude 6.6 earthquake kills 95 folks in Gansu province.
— Aug. 2014: A magnitude 6.1 earthquake kills 617 folks in Yunnan province.
— Sept. 2022: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake kills 93 folks in Sichuan.
— Dec. 2023: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake kills at the least 126 folks in Gansu and Qinghai provinces.