Xinji

Earthquakes near Xinji through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 5 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Xinji, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 7.5 on June 12, 1830 (Hebei Province).

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 6.5 on March 7, 1966 (40 km W of Nangong, China), for which NOAA records 8,064 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 12 here, back to AD 777. NOAA records deaths in 5 of the events here, 20,952 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.7 on December 2, 1967 (Hebei Province: Shulu). NOAA’s record here begins in AD 777 with an earthquake (Hebei Province: Shulu, Ningjin). It grows thinner going back: 7 of the 12 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.

The events

  • December 2, 1967Earthquake · M 5.7Hebei Province: ShuluNOAA NCEI
  • March 7, 1966Earthquake · M 6.540 km W of Nangong, China · 8,064 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • June 12, 1830Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Hebei Province · 7,477 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • June 28, 1626Earthquake · M 7.1 (est.)Shanxi Province · 5,200 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • AD 777EarthquakeHebei Province: Shulu, Ningjin · 200 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Xinji 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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