Da Qaidam

Proper noun

Da Qaidam

1. An administrative zone in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.
   • The USGS said the epicentre of the quake was 161 km (101 miles)) north-northeast of Golmud at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 km). Golmud is an industrial city that is dependent upon potassium mining.
     Xinhua said some mud houses in Da Qaidam, near the epicentre, had cracks in their walls and a few huts had...2008 November 10, Liu Zhen, Ben Blanchard, Lucy Hornby, “Strong quake hits China's Qinghai region”, in Ken Wills, Sanjeev Miglani, editors, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING, archived from the original...
   • An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale jolted a town in Qinghai province yesterday, triggering panic in nearby cities.
     Residents of Da Qaidam felt the ground rock violently for more than a minute at 9.22am as the tremor erupted 10km underground.2008 November 11, “Magnitude 6.3 quake strikes Qinghai province”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2025