Xiangcheng

Earthquakes near Xiangcheng through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 3 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Xiangcheng, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 7 on June 17, 1515 (Yunnan Province: Heqing).

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 6.9 on March 16, 1925 (24 km NE of Dali, China), for which NOAA records 5,800 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 24 here, back to 1515. NOAA records deaths in 15 of the events here, 9,591 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.1 on May 21, 2021 (25 km NW of Dali, China). NOAA’s record here begins on June 17, 1515 with an earthquake (Yunnan Province: Heqing). It grows thinner going back: 11 of the 24 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Xiangcheng. It reached 30 m, on July 20, 2009.

The events

  • May 21, 2021Earthquake · M 6.125 km NW of Dali, China · 3 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • July 20, 2009Tsunami · 30 m highXiaowan Reservoir, Yunnan ProvinceNOAA NCEI
  • March 16, 1925Earthquake · M 6.924 km NE of Dali, China · 5,800 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • June 17, 1515Earthquake · M 7.0 (est.)Yunnan Province: Heqing · 100 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Xiangcheng 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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