[Podcast] The world’s deadliest earthquake? Look to Shaanxi, 1556

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China has had its fair share of severe earthquakes over the centuries, most recently in Sichuan in 2008 and Tangshan in 1976. But the largest in its history happened this week during the Ming dynasty.

Click here to read the article by James Carter.

Narrated by Elyse Ribbons.

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