What the records say
- When
- 10 May 1974
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.1
- Where
- China
- Coordinates
- 28.24° N, 104.01° E
- Deaths
- 20000
- Depth km
- 11
1974 Zhaotong earthquake
Earthquake in China
The 1974 Zhaotong earthquake occurred at 3:25 in the morning local time on 11 May 1974, with a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time of 19:25:16 on 10 May. It had a magnitude that was measured at 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale and 7.1 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. It had a maximum perceived intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale.
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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 “A violent 7.1 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Zhaotong causing between 1,600 and 20,000 deaths”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un violento terremoto de 6,8 sacude la ciudad china de Zhaotong causando 20000 muertes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page