What the records say
- When
- 25 Aug 1933
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.4
- Where
- China
- Coordinates
- 31.96° N, 103.67° E
- Deaths
- 9300
- Intensity mmi
- 10
4 sources record it
- 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 Diexi earthquake shakes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim so genannten Diexi-Erdbeben, auch Erdbeben im Kreis Mao genannt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “四川茂县发生規模7.5地震，叠溪古城被岷江淹没形成堰塞湖，估计逾9,000人丧生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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