Magnitude 8 earthquake in China: Gansu Province · about 22,000 deaths
Natural disaster
1879 Gansu earthquake
Magnitude 8 earthquake in China: Gansu Province · about 22,000 deaths
- 1 July 1879
- East Asia
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