The only thing wrong with the BBC chart is the lack of a map. Xinjiang is NW China, and is about the size of Australia; Hebei is near Beijing (NE China), and Sichuan is in central China. A country as large and mountainous as China is going to be prone to these things.

You know, I wondered about the locations of those places when I reposted the chart. Too lazy to take the time to go find my own map, though.

Xinjiang seems to get hit hard. When I have a few minutes today, I think I'll go read up on that area.

It's an interesting area: it's been independent for long periods, and part of China at other times. Heavily Muslim and Turkic. It's where China does most of its nuclear testing, too.

That sounds like typical government foresight--do your nuclear testing on seismically unstable ground.

::rolleyes::

Some sources on Xinjiang. Light reading, all of them...