The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake, which struck China’s Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces on January 23, is referred to as the world’s deadliest day in history. With an estimated magnitude of 8, it ...

January 23, 1556—a day so devastating it makes modern disasters look like minor inconveniences. On this fateful Thursday, an event of apocalyptic proportions struck China’s Shaanxi province ...

On January 23, 1556, Shaanxi, a province in northwestern China, was hit by a massive earthquake, which is estimated to have claimed an astonishing 830,000 lives.

In 1556, disaster struck China. ... Today, Shaanxi, where the earthquake occurred and which covers more than 205,000 square kilometres (around 79,000 square miles) ...

The most devastating earthquake in Chinese history was the Jiajing earthquake, which occurred, in modern reckoning, on January 23, 1556, during the reign of the Ming dynasty’s Jiajing Emperor.