At midnight on January 8, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 occurred in Qinghai province in northwestern China at a depth of 10 km. Due to a natural phenomenon, about two meters of the Great Wall of China collapsed. The site is being restored informs Global Times.
“Two meters of the Great Wall of China collapsed in Shandan County, Gansu Province in northwestern China, which is 114 kilometers from the epicenter in Mengyuan County in the Haipei Tibet Autonomous Region in Qinghai.
After a strong earthquake, the authorities organized an inspection of local cultural relics and found the site of the collapse. Primary protection has been installed, repair and restoration work is underway, ”the message says.
It is noted that the earthquake occurred in a sparsely populated area, but several large cities felt tremors. There were no reports of the deaths, nine people were injured.
The section of the wall was built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The construction was intended to protect China from the conquerors. The wall divides China into northern and southern parts for nomads and farmers, stretching from the Liaodong Bay of the Yellow Sea to the sands of the Gobi Desert.
The length of the entire Great Wall of China is almost 9000 km. The destroyed site is very small on the scale of the entire structure.
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