30°17′02″N102°57′22″E / 30.28389°N 102.95611°E / 30.28389; 102.95611[2] Lushan County, Sichuan
Areas affected
People's Republic of China (Sichuan, Chongqing, Shaanxi)
Max. intensity
MMI VIII (Severe)
CSIS IX
Aftershocks
1,815[4] (2022 aftershock Ms 6.1[5])
Casualties
193 dead 23 missing 15,554 injured
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Ya'an earthquake
Chinese
雅安地震
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yǎ'ān Dìzhèn
Lushan earthquake
Traditional Chinese
蘆山地震
Simplified Chinese
芦山地震
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Lúshān Dìzhèn
USGS ShakeMap of the Ya'an earthquake mainshock intensity
The Lushan earthquake or Ya'an earthquake (Standard Tibetan: གཡག་རྔ་ཡི་ས་ཡོམ་, Yak-ngai Sayom) occurred at 08:02 Beijing Time (00:02 UTC) on April 20, 2013. The epicenter was located in Lushan County, Ya'an, Sichuan, about 116 km (72 mi) from Chengdu along the Longmenshan Fault in the same province heavily impacted by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.[10] The magnitude of the earthquake was placed at Ms 7.0 by China Earthquake Data Center, Ms 7.0 by Russian Academy of Sciences, Mw 7.0 by Geoscience Australia, Mw 6.6 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS),[11] Mw 6.6 by the European Alert System (EMSC) and Mj 6.9 by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). 1,815 aftershocks have been recorded as of 00:00 (UTC+8h) April 22.[4]
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