What the records say
- When
- 18 May 1695
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.0
- Where
- China
- Coordinates
- 36.00° N, 111.50° E
- Deaths
- 20000
- Intensity mmi
- 10
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1695 Linfen earthquake
Earthquake in China
The 1695 Linfen earthquake struck Shanxi Province in North China, Qing dynasty on May 18. Occurring at a shallow depth within the continental crust, the surface-wave magnitude 7.8 earthquake had a maximum intensity of XI on the China seismic intensity scale and Mercalli intensity scale. This devastating earthquake affected over 120 counties across eight provinces of modern-day China.
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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 7.8 magnitude Linfen earthquake in Shanxi Province, Qing Dynasty kills over 50,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un terremoto de 7,8 sacude 8 provincias de China dejando un saldo de entre 52.000 y 176.000 fallecidos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page