How many people were injured in the Shaanxi earthquake?
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It killed around 830,000 people, making it the worst earthquake in human history by number of deaths. More than 97 counties in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected. The earthquake destroyed a 840-kilometre-wide (520 mi) area.