1833 Kunming earthquake

Magnitude 8 earthquake that struck Kunming in Yunnan, China on September 6, 1833 1833 Kunming earthquake Yunnan yes 1833 09 06 8.0 w y 25 24 N 103 00 E inline,title Xiaojiang Fault Kunming, China 6,000 dead and 80,000 displaced The 1833 Kunming earthquake was an 8.0 Mw earthquake that struck the provincial capital Kunming in Yunnan, China on September 6, 1833.National Physical Atlas of China 1999 China Cartographic Publishing House Beijing, China 978-7503120404 The earthquake had its epicenter along the Xiaojiang Fault near the town of Songming, approximately 50 km mi northeast of Kunming's city centre.Knez Martin Liu Hong Slabe Tadej South China Karst II 2011 Postojna Lujubljana, Slovenia 9789612542412 204 The earthquake destroyed mosques, homes and other buildings in Kunming and the nearby countryside. More than 6,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and another 80,000 were displaced.Atwill David The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856–1873 2005 Stanford University Press Stanford, CA 9780804751599 50 The local governor at the time provided relief to the region and used the event to strengthen his administration in the province.Nie Xuan-hua 2015 危机与应对：清道光十三年云南地震灾害研究 Crisis and Response: A Research on the Earthquake in Yunnan in 1833 Journal of Kunming University 37 2 31-40 10.14091/j.cnki.kmxyxb.2015.02.006 1674-5639 The 1833 Kunming earthquake was the largest magnitude earthquake in Yunnan's recorded history.Liu Ben-yu Miao Sheng Ye Liao-yuan Xiao Mei-ling Damage of Village Buildings in Recent Yunnan Earthquakes 4th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering Taipei, Taiwan 2006 See also List of earthquakes in Yunnan List of earthquakes in China References 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 Category:Earthquakes in Yunnan Category:1833 in Asia Category:1833 earthquakes Category:September 1833 Category:Geography of Kunming Category:1833 in China Category:1830s disasters in Asia Category:19th-century disasters in China Category:History of Kunming