GROUND RUPTURES DURING THE LARGE EARTHQUAKE OF 1556, HUAXIAN COUNTY, SHANXI

In the present paper, a large number of vestiges of earthquake damage, discovered in engineering works: in recent times, such as faults, fissures, phenomena of water and sand eruption, induced eboulements, charcoal and cultural relics fallen in earthquake fault zones, are studied. By means of archaeological study and verification of C₁₄, it is proved that those mentioned above might originate in the Ming Dynasty and that the rupture zone extended for more than 70 kilometres in the meizoseismal area is the very ground rupture zone of the meizoseismal area of this large earthquake.