Meaning of Haiyuan | Babel Free

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A county of Zhongwei, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

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“After interviewing older people and gathering information from many available sources, the scientists presented a preliminary report identifying 58 kinds of domestic and wild animals that had shown unusual activities before those earthquakes. As an example, one chapter of the report describes that before the magnitude 8.5 earthquake, China’s largest, struck in Haiyuan County, Ninghsia Province, northwestern China, in 1920, wolves ran about in packs, sparrows flew around wildly, and dogs barked in a most unusual way.”

“In Tunghsin and Haiyuan counties north of the Liupan Mountains the Red Army helped the Hui people set up the Yuhai Hui Autonomous Government in August 1936, the first self-governing Hui power in Chinese history.”

“– China, 1920: up to 235,000 reported killed This earthquake, measured at 8.3, hit the Haiyuan county of the northern province of Ningxia and caused aftershocks for several years.”

“His cousin, a contractor who led him to the job three years ago, only started working last week after the Lunar New Year break, said Zou, who hails from a village in Haiyuan county, Ningxia, in China’s northwest.”

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