What the records say
- When
- 12 Sep 1850
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Where
- China
- Coordinates
- 27.80° N, 102.30° E
- Deaths
- 20650
- Intensity mmi
- 10
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1850 Xichang earthquake
1850 earthquake in China
The 1850 Xichang earthquake rocked Sichuan Province of Qing China on September 12. The earthquake which caused major damage in Xichang county had an estimated moment magnitude of 7.3–7.9 Mw and a surface wave magnitude of 7.5–7.7 Ms. An estimated 20,650 people died.
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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 1850 Xichang earthquake (7.9) shakes the Chinese province of Sichuan killing more than 20,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page