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Every other time I go on People's Daily for Chinese news, I see a headline related to earthquakes. Why are there so many? (hexbear.net)
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China's official newspaper: People's Daily.

I know China's a big place, and there might be a lot of headlines about mutual aid for disaster survivors. I'm just amazed that I've seen so many earthquake related headlines on the site.

"The frequency of earthquakes in each province of China from 2012 to 2021"

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[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't really know anything about seismology but I'd bet it has to do with the same reason the Himalayas are there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Himalayan_Thrust

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Central_Thrust

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Frontal_Thrust

Basically the Indian tectonic plate is still pushing into the Eurasian one, which is how the Himalayas came to be, resulting in major seismic activity in the area, such as this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Assam%E2%80%93Tibet_earthquake

The 1950 Assam–Tibet earthquake, also known as the Assam earthquake, occurred on 15 August and had a moment magnitude of 8.7. The epicentre was located in the Mishmi Hills. It is one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded on land.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

as sulvor says the himalayas make earthquakes happen but also the media covers it more. in the US we do a headline for a natural disaster, asheville and other towns were washed away in that storm a couple months ago... when was the last national headline on the damage/relief from Helene? People's Daily will talk about the same earthquake for weeks through the whole process

fwiw western state media coming from government departments will also talk about what they're doing in detail like this, say if you go to FEMA's website... but they aren't given spots on national media like NPR cause that's too focused on imitating corporate media and propagandizing.