According to the "Gulang County Records", "It was dawn at that time, and the first earthquake was still weak ... After a while, it came again. There was a thunderbolt, Gu Yingshan sang, and dozens of feet of yellow dust filled the air. In a flash, heaven and earth are different, and the sun and the moon have no light. The castle was razed to the ground, the mountains and rivers changed, and the lanes were difficult to distinguish. The sound of pain can be heard for miles. Gulang starts from Dongyue Temple in the east, reaches Dapotou in Heisongyi in the south, reaches Xiaogangou (Shahegou) in Xichuan in the west, and reaches Hujiabian in the north, about 50 miles away from the urban area. The ground fissures in Huangyangchuan, east of Gulang, are very developed, and the houses are seriously damaged. The wooden frame structure houses in Xiaogangou have all fallen down, the graves have been leveled, the treetops have been brushed over the ground, and the cracks in the flat land on the mountain have developed well; There are many cracks in the area around Heisongyi, mainly in the north-south direction. Almost all the houses collapsed, leaving only a Niangniang Temple and a mill, and the Great Wall collapsed in many places. All the houses collapsed, and the top of the mountain shook brittle, with many cracks and cracks. During the earthquake, cracks were closed one by one, and the ground was uneven after the earthquake. Even in hard places, cracks with a width of 0.5 meters appeared.
At that time, Shengjing Times recorded the tragic situation that Wuwei County and its surrounding areas were destroyed by the earthquake: "The earthquake suddenly started, the valley cracked for a while, and the sun was dark. Six or seven of the ten people in the city collapsed, and the rich area became a mound ruin, which is a monument for thousands of years. At the same time, it was also a catastrophe, with cries shaking the earth and thousands of wells smokeless. The earthquake disaster has never been so cruel and serious as it is now. "
At that time, most seismic stations in the world, such as Shanghai Xujiahui Station, Leningrad Station, Zurich Station and Strasbourg Station, clearly recorded the earthquake. In a Catholic church in Gansu, a nun was buried in a tile with four orphans in her arms. Archbishop Bodenborok called it "the end of the world"!
Knowledge point: Gulang earthquake in 1990s.
1990101On October 20th, an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred at the junction of Gulang, Tianzhu and Jingtai counties. Xincheng and Gancheng, which are located more than 90 kilometers east of Gulang County, are the hardest hit areas in Gulang County, and the county town and nine towns including Liang Heng, Jing Quan, Tumen, Xunzi, Peijiaying, Xijing, Dajing and Quan Min have also been damaged to varying degrees. The epicenter of the earthquake was in Gaolingdun Village, a new town. After the strong earthquake, there were more than 60 aftershocks 1, including 31,5. 1, and 11.
1 June, 9961day, an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred in Gulang county, which was strongly felt in all towns and villages in the county. The county seat and seven towns, including Gu Feng, Heisongyi, Gulang, Shilibao, Huangyangchuan, Ding Ning and Surabaya, have a strong sense of earthquake, and the disaster situation is serious, with landslides, collapsed houses, subsidence of foundation and injuries. After the earthquake, there were more than 60 aftershocks, the largest of which was 3.0 on the Richter scale.