In Gulang, almost the only thing left standing was a 20 m (66 ft) long section of the city walls and some decorated archways.

In Wuwei, most of the city walls collapsed as did many temples, towers and civilian houses, 35,000 people and 200,000 horses and oxen were killed.

In the area around Yongchang many primary schools, forts, stockaded villages and temples were destroyed, killing 809 people.

In Shandan County more than 5,800 houses were destroyed and many cave dwellings collapsed, leaving 886 people dead.

A 23 km (14 mi) long[6] rupture occurred at the eastern end of the Huangcheng–Shuangta Fault with offsets of 0.1–2.8 m (3.9 in – 9 ft 2.2 in).