1976 Songpan–Pingwu earthquake

August 1976 earthquake in Sichuan, China 1976 Songpan–Pingwu earthquake China yes triplet 1976-08-16 14:06:46 1976-08-21 21:49:53 1976-08-23 03:30:07 709871 710167 710223 usp0000hv8 usp0000hzv usp0000j0p August 16, 22, and 23 22:06Jones Han Hauksson Jin 1984 7700. 05:49Jones Han Hauksson Jin 1984 7700. 11:33Jones Han Hauksson Jin 1984 7701. 6.7 w y, 7.0 s yEHB 709871 6.3 w y, 6.6 s yEHB 710167 6.4 w y, 6.7 s yEHB 710223 A: 8 km mi 0 onB: 15 km mi 0 onC: 19 km mi 0 on 32.69 104.2 region:CN_type:event inline,titlegem 709781 HuyaJones Han Hauksson Jin 1984 7697. Reverse and left-lateralJones Han Hauksson Jin 1984 7697. Songpan and Pingwu, Sichuan XEXPO-CAT Earthquake Catalog https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/ December 1, 2008 United States Geological Survey Version 2007-12 14 May 2025 Three year swarm 38 dead, 800 injured thumb | right | alt=Map | Map of Songpan County (pink) and Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) within Sichuan province of China The 1976 Songpan–Pingwu earthquake that struck Songpan and Pingwu counties in Sichuan, China consisted of three mainshocks on the 16th, 21st, and 23rd (UTC) of August. A 1984 report gave the magnitudes as 7.2, 6.7, and 7.2, respectively (scale not specified).Jones Han Hauksson Jin 1984 7697. The magnitudes were subsequently recalculated as 6.7, 6.3, and 6.4 on the w y scale, and 7.0, 6.6, and 6.7 on the s y scale.EHB 709871 EHB 710167 EHB 710223 These were preceded by an earthquake swarm lasting three years. During the period from August 16 to August 31 there were over 400 aftershocks of magnitude 3.0 or greater.Jones Han Hauksson Jin 1984 7698 Short term earthquake warning were issued 3 months before the earthquake.Liaoning Earthquake Administration http://www.lndzj.gov.cn/jcyb1/ybgl/201703/t20170302_2801324.html Past successful Chinese earthquake predictions 2018-10-14 2020-11-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20201115215227/http://www.lndzj.gov.cn/jcyb1/ybgl/201703/t20170302_2801324.html dead November 2018 November 2018 There were 38 dead in the four counties struck—Songpan, Pingwu, Maowen and Nanping. More than 5,000 houses collapsed and 2800 heads of livestock lost. The earthquake was felt as far as Gaotai, Gansu to the west, Kunming, Yunnan to the south, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia to the north, and Changsha, Hunan to the east; an area with a maximum radius of 1,150 kilometers (714 miles). China Earthquake Administration http://www.cea.gov.cn/manage/html/8a8587881632fa5c0116674a018300cf/_content/08_06/02/1212392075937.html Xinhua News Agency Earthquake with scale 6 or higher Since 1976 November 2018 November 2018 The total number of casualties was 800, 600 of them slightly injured, mostly due to mudslides. The Earthquake Administration of Sichuan won the Chinese National Science and Technology Award of 1978 for successfully predicting the earthquake.Sichuan Earthquake Administration http://www.eqsc.gov.cn/manage/fileupload/statichtml/admin/sppw30/index.htm 30th anniversary of the Songpan–Pingwu earthquake 2018-10-14 2013-11-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20131127060531/http://www.eqsc.gov.cn/manage/fileupload/statichtml/admin/sppw30/index.htm dead November 2018 November 2018 See also 1976 Tangshan earthquake (July 27/28) 1976 Longling earthquake (May 29) List of earthquakes in 1976 List of earthquakes in China List of earthquakes in Sichuan Notes Sources 30em cs2 Sichuan 1976a usp0000hv8 M 6.9 – Sichuan-Gansu border region, China cs2 Sichuan 1976b usp0000hzv M 6.4 – Sichuan-Gansu border region, China cs2 Sichuan 1976c usp0000j0p M 6.7 – Sichuan-Gansu border region, China cs2 EHB cs2 gem L. M. Jones Lucy Jones W. Han E. Hauksson A. Jin Y. Zhang Z. Luo 1984 Focal mechanisms and aftershock locations of the Songpan earthquakes of August 1976 in Sichuan, China http://authors.library.caltech.edu/38336/1/jgrb4880.pdf Journal of Geophysical Research 89 B9 7697–7707 10.1029/jb089ib09p07697 1984JGR....89.7697J. External links 709871 1976 Songpan Category:1976 in China Category:1976 earthquakes Category:Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture Category:1976 disasters in China Category:20th century in Sichuan