Lushui

Earthquakes near Lushui through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 8 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Lushui, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest was a magnitude 7, twice: on June 17, 1515 (Yunnan Province: Heqing) and on May 29, 1976 (152 km ENE of Bhamo, Myanmar).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Lushui in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: an estimated magnitude 6.5 on March 13, 1577 (Yunnan: Tengchong), for which NOAA records 170 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 17 here, back to 1512. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 272 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.3 on May 2, 2023 (26 km WSW of Bonan, China). NOAA’s record here begins on October 8, 1512 with an earthquake (Yunnan Province). It grows thinner going back: 12 of the 17 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists one significant eruption of one volcano within 100 km of Lushui.

The events

  • May 2, 2023Earthquake · M 5.326 km WSW of Bonan, ChinaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • May 29, 1976Earthquake · M 7.0152 km ENE of Bhamo, MyanmarUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • 1609EruptionTengchongNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • March 13, 1577Earthquake · M 6.5 (est.)Yunnan: Tengchong · 170 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • June 17, 1515Earthquake · M 7.0 (est.)Yunnan Province: Heqing · 100 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • October 8, 1512Earthquake · M 6.5 (est.)Yunnan ProvinceNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Lushui when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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