What the records say
- When
- 23 May 2014
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.8
- Where
- China
- Coordinates
- 24.97° N, 97.84° E
- Injuries
- 15
- Damage musd
- 60
- Depth km
- 8
2014 Yingjiang earthquake
Earthquake in China
The 2014 Yingjiang earthquake occurred on 24 May at 4:49 a.m. local time in Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China, with a moment magnitude of 5.6 and a maximum perceived intensity of VII on the Mercalli intensity scale. The epicenter was in the town of Kachang. There were 14 aftershocks, according to the Yunnan provincial seismological bureau.
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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 “An earthquake in Yunnan Province destroyed 9,412 homes and displaced more than 8,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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