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22-467: On March 24, 1923, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck between Luhuo and Dawu and killed 4800 people. On February 6, 1973, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred near Zhaggo , a town in the county. Zhaggo County is divided into 4 towns and 11 townships : This Sichuan location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1923 Renda earthquake The 1923 Renda earthquake occurred on March 24 at 20:40 local time between

44-573: A scenic cable car imported from Germany. In 2008 the PRC government opened an airport at Kangding in the province of Sichuan, with a 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) runway. At the time this was the second-highest in the world, at 4,280 metres (14,040 ft) above sea level, with the highest position held by Qamdo Bamda Airport at 4,400m. Since 2013, with the opening of the Daocheng Yading Airport at an elevation 4,411m, Kangding Airport

66-659: Is a very common occurrence, with around two-thirds of the days receiving some rainfall; in addition, 77% of the annual precipitation is delivered from May to September. Monthly daily average temperatures range from −1.9 °C (28.6 °F) in January to 15.7 °C (60.3 °F) in July; the annual mean is 7.29 °C (45.1 °F). Over the course of the year, the frost-free period lasts 177 days and there are 1,738 hours of sunshine. The highest temperature ever recorded in Kangding

88-589: Is part of the historical Tibetan region of Kham . The raging Zheduo River flows through the city, thus the constant sound of water reverberates throughout much of the city. At the north end of Kangding near the bus station the Zheduo River converges with the Yala River. The city features a sizable square, People's Square, where young and old alike gather in the early hours of the morning to do Tai Chi, play badminton, or socialise. This square comes alive on

110-425: Is the third highest in the world. The folk song Kangding Qingge enjoys popularity throughout China. Since Kangding city was a major town for trading of cloth and tea between Tibetans and Han people. With the increase of trade in Kangding it also attracted more traders with different nationalities creating this culturally diverse city today. Therefore, singers also incorporate the music style of Tibet to acknowledge

132-601: The Altyn Tagh Fault , Kunlun Fault , Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system . Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes the crustal blocks of the Tibetan Plateau outwards, forcing it to move eastwards. Meanwhile, the strike-slip motion also results in east–west extension of the plateau, causing normal faults to break within the thickened crust. The Xianshuihe fault system is a 1,400-km-long active left-lateral strike-slip fault that accommodate

154-454: The Dartsedo camp bordering Sichuan . By the roadside the authorities opened a mass grave which was filled with corpses and gave off a terrible stench. 'Every day,' she recalls, 'they would deliver nine or ten truck loads of bodies to put there...' Of the 300 women arrested with her, only 100 survived." Kangding City has a highland climate , with cold winters and cool summers. Affected by

176-705: The Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate . As the thrusting of the Indian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate along the Himalayas continues, the continental crust within the Eurasian Plate is actively uplifted and thickened, forming the Tibetan Plateau. As there are no active thrust structures within the plateau, compression is accommodated by strike-slip motion along large structures including

198-622: The Kham region of Tibet and the Sichuan region. Kangding's urban center is called Lucheng , which has around 134,000 inhabitants. Historically, the urban center was known by Chinese as Dajianlu (written also as Tachienlu or Tatsienlu ) from the Chinese transliteration of the Tibetan name Dartsedo or Darzêdo . Kangding was on the historical border between Tibet and China. From Kangding to

220-709: The Republic of China administration, Kangding was the capital of the now-defunct province of Xikang . Dartsedo had a "reform through labor" prison or laogai after 1959. Jasper Becker in Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine wrote, "The highest death rate was probably experienced by the Tibetans imprisoned after the abortive revolt of 1959. One survivor, Ama Adhe , describes in A Strange Liberation: Tibetan Lives in Chinese Hands what happened at

242-520: The counties of Daofu and Luhuo in Sichuan , China . The estimated M s 7.3 earthquake was assigned a maximum modified Mercalli intensity scale rating of X ( Extreme ). Severe damage occurred in Sichuan, killing an estimated 4,800 people. Western Sichuan is situated at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau in a vast zone of complex continental deformation caused by the collision of

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264-570: The diversity. Kangding contains some notable Buddhist monasteries, including Nanwu Si Monastery , Anjue Monastery and Jinggang Monastery . It was from 1857 the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kangding , administered by Paris Foreign Missions Society . The Catholic church was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt in the 1980s. Today it is no longer in use and has been converted to shops and

286-421: The earthquake between Daofu and Renda. The immediate region around the surface rupture was also the meizoseismal area where the maximum intensity was X. The northwest extent of the rupture overlaps the eventual southeastern rupture zone of the 1973 Luhuo earthquake . Meanwhile, the farthest southeast rupture overlaps the northwest rupture extent of the 1981 Dawu earthquake . A maximum coseismic slip of 3.3 meters

308-463: The monsoon, it is rainy in summer and dry in winter. Kangding has a monsoon -influenced climate, lying in the transition between a humid continental ( Dwb ) and a subtropical highland climate ( Cwb ) on the Köppen system . Despite the elevation of 2,560 metres (8,400 ft), the diurnal temperature variation averages at most 10.6 °C (19.1 °F) in any month. From April to September, rain

330-609: The mountains. Fissures measuring up to 2 meters across appeared in the ground. The death toll is in excess of 3,000 people. Two villages in Dawu county were razed to the ground; none left standing. An estimated 500 people were killed in the county. Several residents died in Qianning while many homes and schools were lost. At Kangding , at least 1,300 people died during a severe rockfall . Many temples suffered partial collapses whils poorly-constructed homes were destroyed. Damage to homes

352-670: The sovereignty over the city between Tibet and the Qing was resolved when the Manchu forces took the city by storm in the Battle of Dartsedo in 1701. On July 1, 1786 an earthquake of 7.75 on the Moment magnitude scale ruined nearly the entire city. The city was renamed ' Kangding ' in 1904. The American author Dorris Shelton Still , author of Sue in Tibet , was born here. During the time of

374-453: The strike-slip motion in the Tibetan Plateau. The fault is one of the largest active intracontinental geological structure in the world. Beginning in 1893, at least 350 km of the fault length has ruptured in large successive earthquakes with magnitudes 6.5 or larger. Going back to the year 1700 to present-day, the fault has ruptured its entire 1,400 km length during large earthquakes. A 60-kilometer-long surface rupture formed after

396-495: The weekends as well, when families tend to fill it. Traditional Tibetan and Sichuanese restaurants are easily found throughout the city. Dentok, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery sits on the Paoma Mountain overlooking the city, and is accessible by cable car. As of October 2006, a stone amphitheatre is under construction at the upper monastery. It is a fast-growing city, with a rapidly developing tourist infrastructure, including

418-456: The west lies Tibetan civilization, whereas to the east are Han cultural areas. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Chakla . During its history, Kangding has witnessed many conflicts between Tibetan and Han polities. Kangding was for many centuries an important trading city where Han brick tea was carried by porters from Chengdu and other centres to trade for Tibetan wool. A dispute involving

440-439: Was a high temperature record of 30.1 °C (86.2 °F) measured on March 30, 2007. Kangding is divided into 2 subdistricts , 8 towns and 7 townships : Kangding is located in a valley of the Tibetan Plateau about 210 kilometres (130 mi) west-southwest of Chengdu , the provincial capital, and 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Ya'an . It is a city populated by significant proportions of both Tibetans and Han, and

462-541: Was also reported in Garzê Town , Xinlong and Litang . Kangding Kangding ( Chinese : 康定 ), also called Tachienlu and Dartsedo ( Chinese : 打箭炉 ; Tibetan : དར་རྩེ་མདོ། ), is a county-level city and the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province of Southwest China . Kangding is on the bank of the Dadu River and has been considered the historical border between

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484-442: Was measured near the village of Dazhai, while the average slip across the rupture was 3.0 meters. Coulomb stress transfer may have increased strain on the segment north of the 1923 earthquake rupture, causing it to fail during the 1973 earthquake. In Luhuo county, the city's defensive walls toppled to the ground. Many homes, official buildings, and places of worship were totally destroyed. Avalanches and landslides occurred on

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