1833 Kunming earthquake explained

1833 Kunming earthquake
Pre-1900:	yes
Magnitude:	8.0
Location:	25.4°N 103°W
Fault:	Xiaojiang Fault
Casualties:	6,000 dead

The 1833 Kunming earthquake was an 8.0 M_w earthquake that struck the provincial capital Kunming in Yunnan, China on September 6, 1833.^[1] The earthquake had its epicenter along the Xiaojiang Fault near the town of Songming, approximately northeast of Kunming's city centre.^[2] The earthquake destroyed many buildings, homes, and temples in Kunming and the nearby countryside. More than 6,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and another 80,000 were displaced.^[3] The Qing government at the time provided relief to the region and used the event to strengthen its administration in the province.^[4] The 1833 Kunming earthquake was the largest magnitude earthquake in Yunnan's recorded history.

See also

• List of earthquakes in Yunnan
• List of earthquakes in China

Further reading

• Wen . Xue-ze . Ma . Sheng-li . Xu . Xi-wei . He . Yong-nian . Historical pattern and behavior of earthquake ruptures along the eastern boundary of the Sichuan-Yunnan faulted-block, southwestern China . Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors . 168 . 1–2 . 2008 . 0031-9201 . 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.04.013 . 16–36. 2008PEPI..168...16W .

Notes and References

1. Book: . National Physical Atlas of China. 1999. China Cartographic Publishing House. Beijing, China. 978-7503120404.
2. Book: Knez. Martin. Liu. Hong. Slabe. Tadej. South China Karst II. 2011. Postojna. Lujubljana, Slovenia. 9789612542412. 204.
3. Book: Atwill. David. The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856–1873. 2005. Stanford University Press. Stanford, CA. 9780804751599. 50.
4. Web site: Crisis and Response: A Research on the Earthquake in Yunnan in 1833. CNKI. Kunming University.