Dawu County ( Tibetan : རྟའུ་རྫོང་། ), also written Tawu County or Daofu County ( Chinese : 道孚县 ), is a county of northwestern Sichuan Province , China. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture , and as of 2001, had a population of 46,900 residing in an area of 7,546 square kilometres (2,914 sq mi). By road it is 219 km (136 mi) from Kangding , the prefectural seat, and 585 km (364 mi) from Chengdu , the provincial capital. It borders the counties of Xinlong to the west, Kangding and Yajiang to the south, and Jinchuan and Zamtang of Ngawa Prefecture as well as Luhuo to the north.
4-533: In January 1981 it was struck by an earthquake . Dawu County is divided into 7 towns and 12 townships : See this link for a book-length study of a Tibetan village in Dawu County: This Sichuan location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1981 Dawu earthquake The 1981 Dawu earthquake occurred on 24 January at 5:13 a.m. CST , in Sichuan , China. Registering
8-464: A surface-wave magnitude of 6.8, the earthquake killed about 150 people and injured roughly 300 more. It caused comprehensive damage within close range of its epicenter. China has an extensive history of catastrophic earthquakes that ranges back to 1290. The first verified earthquake took place in Chih-li , killing roughly 100,000 people. The next great earthquake was probably the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake ,
12-485: The most devastating earthquake of all time . Roughly 830,000 were killed by the event. Other earthquakes in 1917, 1918, 1920, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1948, 1950, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976 each killed at least one thousand people. Since 1981, earthquake fatalities have diminished greatly, though have not been stopped. As recently as 2008, an earthquake in Sichuan killed nearly 90,000 people. The epicenter
16-557: Was pinpointed to Dawu County in Sichuan. Its official magnitude was 6.8 and its surface wave magnitude reached 6.6. A moderately well controlled focal mechanism indicates that the earthquake was probably a result of left lateral strike-slip faulting on the Daofu fault. The Daofu fault forms part of the Xianshuihe fault system , which experienced a sequence of four earthquakes greater than 6.0 between 1973 and 1982, with each event triggering
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