The Xingtai earthquake (Chinese: 邢台大地震; pinyin: Xíngtái Dà Dìzhèn) was a sequence of major earthquakes that took place between March 8 and March 29, 1966, in the area administered by the prefecture-level city of Xingtai in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China.

It was followed by a sequence of five earthquakes above magnitude 6 that lasted until March 29, 1966.

The strongest of these quakes had a magnitude of 6.8 and took place in the southeastern part of Ningjin County on March 22.

[2] The earthquake damage included 8,064 dead, 38,000 injured and more than 5 million destroyed houses.

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