What the records say
- When
- 6 Sep 1833
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.0
- Where
- China
- Coordinates
- 25.20° N, 103.00° E
- Deaths
- 6700
- Houses destroyed
- 87620
- Intensity mmi
- 11
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1833 Kunming earthquake
Magnitude 8 earthquake that struck Kunming in Yunnan, China on September 6, 1833
The 1833 Kunming earthquake was an 8.0 Mw earthquake that struck the provincial capital Kunming in Yunnan, China on September 6, 1833. The earthquake had its epicenter along the Xiaojiang Fault near the town of Songming, approximately 50 km (31 mi) northeast of Kunming's city centre. The earthquake destroyed mosques, homes and other buildings in Kunming and the nearby countryside.
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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 “At least 6,000 people are killed when an 8.0 magnitude earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan destroying buildings, homes and temples”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page