Le grand séisme de Huaxian (1556) : quelques documents chinois

Jean-Paul Poirier (1)

1 IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

The strong earthquake that struck Shaanxi, Shanxi and several other Chinese provinces in 1556 is generally considered as the deadliest of all earthquakes. It is said that the Chinese annals reported 830,000 casualties. We give here a translation into French of the relevant passage of the annals, as well as of a testimony of a survivor Qin Keda, and of a text engraved on a stela.

Mots clés: Séisme; Shaanxi; Huaxian; Jiajing; Qin Keda

Domaines: Planète et Univers [physics]; Sciences de la Terre

Jean-Paul Poirier. Le grand séisme de Huaxian (1556) : quelques documents chinois. Comptes rendus - Geoscience, 2017, 349, pp.49-52. ⟨10.1016/j.crte.2017.02.002⟩. ⟨insu-03748873⟩