Yibin

Earthquakes near Yibin through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 4 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Yibin, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest was a magnitude 7 on July 30, 1917 (42 km W of Xunchang, China).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded 5 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Yibin 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

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 6.8 on May 10, 1974 (72 km WSW of Xunchang, China), for which NOAA records 20,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 16 here, back to 27 BCE. NOAA records deaths in 11 of the events here, 21,894 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 in 27 BCE with an earthquake (Sichuan: Yibin). It grows thinner going back: 12 of the 16 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.

The events

  • April 5, 2022Earthquake · M 4.644 km SE of Xunchang, ChinaUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • May 10, 1974Earthquake · M 6.872 km WSW of Xunchang, China · 20,000 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 16, 1936Earthquake · M 6.992 km SSW of Luocheng, ChinaUSGS
  • July 30, 1917Earthquake · M 7.042 km W of Xunchang, China · 1,800 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • 27 BCEEarthquake · M 5.5 (est.)Sichuan: Yibin · 13 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Yibin 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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