The deadliest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake" id="mwOg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Earthquake">earthquake</a> in history, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1556_Shaanxi_earthquake" id="mwOw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1556 Shaanxi earthquake">Shaanxi earthquake</a>, hits <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaanxi" id="mwPA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Shaanxi">Shaanxi</a> province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.<sup about="#mwt31" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_23#cite_note-4" id="mwPQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwPg">[4]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"><cite about="#mwt28" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHuLiuDong1996">Hu, Y-X.; <a href="./Liu_Shaw-chen" id="mwBsw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Liu Shaw-chen">Liu, S-C.</a>; Dong, W. (18 July 1996). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=suaVCkVdyuwC&amp;pg=PA101" id="mwBs0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBs4">Earthquake Engineering</i></a>. CRC Press. p.<span id="mwBs8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>101. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBtA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBtE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-419-20590-6" id="mwBtI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-419-20590-6"><bdi id="mwBtM">978-0-419-20590-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt28" class="Z3988" id="mwBtQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Earthquake+Engineering&amp;rft.pages=101&amp;rft.pub=CRC+Press&amp;rft.date=1996-07-18&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-419-20590-6&amp;rft.aulast=Hu&amp;rft.aufirst=Y-X.&amp;rft.au=Liu%2C+S-C.&amp;rft.au=Dong%2C+W.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DsuaVCkVdyuwC%26pg%3DPA101&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+23"></span></span>