What the records say
- When
- 13 Jul 1605
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Where
- China
- Coordinates
- 19.90° N, 110.50° E
- Deaths
- 2000
- Intensity mmi
- 10
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1605 Guangdong earthquake
Significant earthquake Guangdong province China 13 July 1605
The 1605 Qiongshan earthquake occurred on 13 July that struck Hainan and the adjacent Guangdong province in China with an estimated magnitude of 7.5 Ms with a maximum felt intensity of X (Extreme) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. It caused widespread damage, including the subsidence of large areas of farmland, swamping many villages and several thousand people were killed.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 1605 Guangdong earthquake, of 7.5 magnitude, strikes China's Hainan Province causing widespread damage and thousands of deaths”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un terremoto de 7,5 golpea la provincia de Hainan causando daños generalizados y miles de muertes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page