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Ruins after Sanhe-Pinggu Earthquake (1679)
Date：September 3, 1679
Epicenter：Sanhe-Pinggu in Hebei Province
Level：8 magnitude
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The damaged Great Wall
in Huairou |
Details：
The impact of the earthquake reached Shengyang (Liaoning
Province) in the East, Min County (Gansu Province) in the
West. It affected Tongcheng, Anhui province in the South.
Though the impact was felt as far as thousands of miles away,
Sanhe and Pinggu was most seriously damaged areas by the
earthquake. Far and wide, nothing was left, and people could
see very far because there was no barriers to the eyes.
Mountains fell and the ground gave way. The ground surface was
split and black water gushed out from it. Damaged houses and
buildings were like hills and dead corpse were lying here and
there. Numerous officials and common citizens were killed and
some families were even completely killed by the earthquake.
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The Tower Relics in Tiankai
( Openning Heaven ) Temple |
Sanhe: the city walls and houses were almost completely
destroyed. There were only fifty five houses survived the
shock. The ground was split in many places and dark water
flooded everywhere. There was a two feet wide split across the
road in Liu Hetun. 2677 people were crashed.
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The bottom part of Silver
Mountain Tower was damaged
in Changping |
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The fault and steep
in Xiadian, Dachang |
Pinggu: all the villages and temples
were completely damaged. The split in the ground was about 3
meters wide, dark water rushed out from gap. The crops grown
in the fields were damaged. There was a mountain called Saw
Teeth Cliff in that area. The mountains were staggered loosely
like the teeth of a saw and connected with Pan Mountain in Ji
County. It collapsed seriously during the earthquake. Some
peaks were even cut in the middle and the collapsed rocks
dashed into the earth quite deeply. There was a well in
Daxinzhai. The shape of the well was greatly tortured and
afterwards, some people even call it a lying down well. The
people of this county, besides those killed by the collapses
of the houses, no more than 30 to 40% were left. The whole
ground of the city was lowered 2 to 10 feet than it before.
 
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