A normal fault caused the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake.
Shaanxi (formerly Shensi), China on January 23, 1556. There was 830,000 deaths.
PLATES
The area of Shaanxi is 205,800 square kilometers.
tectonic plates
convergent plates
It was the Eurasian and the Philippine plates that moved and caused the earthquake in Kobe.
Volcanoes, caused by slipping plates, and earthquakes, caused by rubbing plates.
yes and no. Volacanic eruptions '''can''' be caused by the '''seperation of plates''' but they can also be caused by the '''plates conliding with each other'''. It can push the magma upward
The Shaanxi earthquake was caused from a dip slip fault. A dip slip fault is where one section of the land slips and slides from the other. The Shaanxi was the deadliest in history killing about 830,000 people.
Shaanxi Normal University was created in 1944.
Shaanxi History Museum was created in 1991.