Earthquakes near Xinyuan through history
From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 5 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Xinyuan, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 3 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 8, twice: on March 8, 1812 (Xinjiang Province) and on December 22, 1906 (95 km WSW of Shihezi, China).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Xinyuan in the last 30 days.
What the record holds
The one on December 22, 1906 was the deadliest: NOAA records 280 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 8 here, back to 1812. NOAA records deaths in 3 of the events here, 304 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.6 on November 1, 2011 (Xinjiang Province). NOAA’s record here begins on March 8, 1812 with an earthquake (Xinjiang Province). It grows thinner going back: 6 of the 8 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.
The events
Good to know
- An event counts for Xinyuan 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history