Qiongshan earthquake (

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

:瓊山地震) was an earthquake in 1605 on the 13th of July (the 33rd year of reign of

Emperor Wanli The Wanli Emperor (; 4 September 1563 – 18 August 1620), personal name Zhu Yijun (), was the 14th Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1572 to 1620. "Wanli", the era name of his reign, literally means "ten thousand calendars". He was th ...

, May 28th in the Chinese lunar calendar) that struck

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

and the adjacent

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

province in China with an estimated magnitude of 7.5 with a maximum felt intensity of X (''Extreme'') on the

Modified Mercalli intensity scale The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS), developed from Giuseppe Mercalli's Mercalli intensity scale of 1902, is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of shaking produced by an earthquake. It measures the eff ...

. It caused widespread damage, including the subsidence of large areas of farmland, swamping many villages and several thousand people were killed. According to the Chinese records about the event, in the reign of the Wanli Emperor, "there was a thunderous sound, the public office collapsed and the houses collapsed, and thousands of the dead were crushed in the county" and "the corpse is covered in pillows, bloody, touches the heart, and spit in the sky.From 萬曆瓊州府志,book 12,書目文獻出版社, 1990, "三十三年五月二十八日亥時地大震。自東北起聲如雷，公署民房崩倒殆盡，郡城中壓死者幾千”；“亥時忽然震動，初如奔車之輾，繼如風揶之顛。”“屍骸枕藉，腥血薰沾，觸目摧心，慟天流涕。”

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