
Northern China’s Shanxi Rift System Faces Dual Crisis: Earthquake Risk and Land Subsidence Cause $6 Billion in Damage
Northern China, a region already prone to seismic activity, is grappling with an escalating crisis rooted in its geology and intensified by human activity. The Shanxi Rift System, an active tectonic zone stretching 900 to 1,200 kilometers, runs beneath several densely populated areas in the Shanxi Province. Historically responsible for multiple magnitude-7 earthquakes, this geologic…