Xuyong

Earthquakes near Xuyong through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded one earthquake of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Xuyong, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. One stands far above the rest: a magnitude 7 on July 30, 1917 (42 km W of Xunchang, China). The next strongest reached 5.8.

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded 5 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Xuyong in the last 30 days.

The latest: magnitude 4.7 on October 7 (2 km WSW of Xunchang, China). The strongest: magnitude 5 on September 25 (11 km NNW of Xunchang, China).

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 1,800 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 5 here, back to 1917. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 1,813 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 4.6 on April 5, 2022 (44 km SE of Xunchang, China). NOAA’s record here begins on July 30, 1917 with an earthquake (42 km W of Xunchang, China).

The events

  • April 5, 2022Earthquake · M 4.644 km SE of Xunchang, ChinaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • June 17, 2019Earthquake · M 5.822 km ESE of Xunchang, China · 13 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • July 30, 1917Earthquake · M 7.042 km W of Xunchang, China · 1,800 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Xuyong 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

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