What the records say
- When
- 3 Feb 1996
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.6
- Where
- China
- Coordinates
- 27.29° N, 100.28° E
- Deaths
- 322
- Injuries
- 17057
- Damage musd
- 506
- Houses destroyed
- 959000
- Intensity mmi
- 9
- Depth km
- 11
1996 Lijiang earthquake
Natural disaster in Yunnan, China
The 1996 Lijiang earthquake occurred at 19:14 on 3 February near Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China. The shock measured 6.6 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).
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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 6.6 earthquake near Lijiang in South-west China kills up to 322 people, injures 17,000, and leaves 300,000 homeless”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “中国大陸丽江市发生7级地震，共有309人死亡，4070人重伤，12987人轻伤，7.86亿（一说30.5亿）元人民币的直接损失。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page