The earliest courses of the lower Yellow River are: the Yugong River and Shanjing River. Near Zhengzhou, Henan Province, they both turned abruptly to the north along eastern foot of Taihang Mountains to north of Beijing. It is suggested that this may be due to a great earthquake of 4280 a B.P. in Taihang Mountains. There is also an E-W active fault in Yanshan Mountain with its downthrow side on the south. The Shanjng River probably followed this fault valley and entered the Bohai Sea north of Tianjin.
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