May 14, 1351 Earthquake: Yushe, Shanxi Province, China
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Yushe, Shanxi Province, China on May 14, 1351.
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Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- May 14, 1351
- Place
- Yushe, Shanxi Province, China
- Magnitude
- 5.5 (Ms)
- Intensity
- 7 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 37.300° N, 113.000° E
- Country
- China
The toll
- Deaths
- Many (about 101 to 1,000)
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
May 14, 1351, N of Yushe, Shanxi Province, 37.3 N, 113 E, magnitude 5.5, intensity VII.
General situation: Earthquakes occurred at Wenshui,
Yuci and Yushe, Shanxi Province, and Wuzhi, Xiuwu and Mengxian, Henan province, producing noises like thunder. Houses collapsed. Many people were killed. More than half of the halls of the newly built Confucian Temple at Yushe were tilted.
Note: Epicenter uncertain.
(above from reference #3939)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- January 9, 1038, Dingxiang, Xinxian, Shaanxi Province, China
- May 18, 1695, Linfen, Shanxi Province, China
- March 7, 1966, Hebei Province, China
- June 12, 1830, Hebei Province, China
- December 4, 1209, Fushan, Shaanxi Province, China
- November 22, 1683, Shanxi Province, China
- October 5, 1314, Shexian, Hebei, China
- August 25, 1291, Shaanxi Province, China
- September 12, 649, Linfen, Shaanxi Province, China
- April 17, 1891, Shanxi Province, China
- August 19, 820, Fan Chong, Shaanxi Province, China
- January 15, 1102, Chin,hsi Tai IN Tai,yuan, Shanxi Province, China
- 1890, Shanxi Province, China
- October 23, 1614, Shaanxi Province, China
- July 8, 1368, Xugou, Shanxi Province, China
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 7910.