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  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  GEOGRAPHIC 
  MAGAZINE 
  

  

  Severe 
  LandslideAreas 
  

  

  Heavily 
  Shaken 
  Area 
  with 
  

   heavy 
  loss 
  of 
  life 
  

  

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  Seat 
  of 
  Disturbance 
  

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  and 
  Fissured) 
  

  

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  Drawn 
  from 
  a 
  sketch 
  by 
  Josef 
  W. 
  

   A 
  MAP 
  OF 
  THE 
  QUAKE-STRICKEN 
  AREA 
  IN 
  KANSU 
  PROVINCE, 
  CHINA 
  

  

  Hall 
  

  

  By 
  some 
  miracle, 
  the 
  watchman 
  at 
  the 
  

   entrance 
  to 
  the 
  cave 
  escaped 
  with 
  his 
  life, 
  

   but 
  the 
  others 
  were 
  buried 
  so 
  deeply 
  that, 
  

   despite 
  months 
  of 
  digging 
  over 
  an 
  area 
  

   of 
  a 
  mile, 
  the 
  Moslems 
  have 
  failed 
  to 
  re- 
  

   cover 
  the 
  bodies 
  of 
  their 
  leaders. 
  

  

  A 
  HIGH 
  W 
  AY 
  RID 
  KS 
  ( 
  ) 
  N 
  T 
  HE 
  C 
  RE 
  ST 
  OP 
  

   THE 
  QUAKE 
  

  

  Tn 
  another 
  district 
  Mr. 
  Hall 
  and 
  his 
  

   party 
  found 
  that 
  a 
  whole 
  mountain 
  topped 
  

   by 
  a 
  temple 
  had 
  slid 
  into 
  a 
  valley. 
  A 
  

   little 
  beyond 
  they 
  found 
  that 
  a 
  road 
  bor- 
  

  

  dered 
  by 
  poplar 
  trees 
  had 
  ridden 
  the 
  crest 
  

   of 
  a 
  slide 
  for 
  three-quarters 
  of 
  a 
  mile, 
  

   without 
  apparent 
  damage 
  to 
  the 
  trees 
  or 
  

   even 
  to 
  the 
  birds' 
  nests 
  in 
  their 
  branches. 
  

   One 
  astonished 
  peasant 
  looked 
  out 
  of 
  his 
  

   window 
  in 
  the 
  morning 
  to 
  find 
  that 
  a 
  high 
  

   hill 
  had 
  moved 
  onto 
  the 
  homestead, 
  stop- 
  

   ping 
  its 
  line 
  of 
  march 
  within 
  a 
  few 
  feet 
  

   of 
  his 
  hut. 
  

  

  In 
  another 
  village 
  the 
  only 
  people 
  left 
  

   alive 
  were 
  a 
  couple 
  over 
  seventy 
  years 
  old. 
  

   They 
  were 
  saved 
  from 
  death 
  only 
  by 
  the 
  

   fact 
  that 
  their 
  children, 
  displaying 
  a 
  

  

  