On the contrary--China has been plagued by natural disasters throughout its history; some of the world's worst earthquakes, floods, landslides etc. have occurred there.
Also, the Chinese also invented the first seismometer. Seismo With that said, we can assume they had lots of earthquakes. [Renrue]
thanks for the input, would anybody know if all of mainland china is hit regular by earthquakes?. are there any places in china that dont suffer from earthquakes? i dont know the correct spelling but here goes, what parts of china are on tectonic plates? is there any part of china that dosent have plates colliding?. thanks for the input even anomolous (although i dont know what your input was about) peace.
I don't know about the plates, Chi, but another thing to remember is that until recent years China wasn't keen on broadcasting it's internal calamities to the whole world. Many earthquakes there were detected by stations in other countries but we heard nothing about the damage they had caused.
There was a massive earthquake that destroyed their Three Gorges Dam and killed many, many people. But this happened in communist China and was brushed off as "happy energy" from their communist leader, Mao Zedong.
The entire surface of the earth consists of tectonic plates moving around. There isn't any place that's not on one. For a place not to have had earthquakes recently--or even during recorded history--says nothing about it. Tectonic shifts occur in geological time. After all that's how mountains get to be five miles high and how continents get to be three thousand miles apart, but it took tens of millions of years. All it says is that those two plates haven't had to relieve their stress during the past few thousand years. But we all know that they will, sometime during the next hundred million years. Which ones are next is just a crap shoot. The worst earthquake in recorded history was in China, in 1556, estimated at 8.0 - 8.3. They had good records and the death toll was 830,000, sixty percent of the population in the 500-mile wide area that was affected. The worst earthquake of the 20th century was also in China, in 1976, measured at 8.0. It killed 655,000 people.
Damnit man, that was the earthquake that caused the Three Gorges Dam collapse, why you gotta be stealin my thunder?
My mistake, the dam collapse I'm referring to occurred in 1975, not 1976. And only 85,000 had died. http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/aug1975.htm And the Three Gorges Dam is not even complete, but that was the only infamous Chinese dam and thought it had been collapsed. But it's infamous because it's related to the corruption of China, not a collapse. HIYO.
