Significant earthquakes of 1509

June 17, 1509 Earthquake: E. China Sea

June 17, 1509

An earthquake struck E. China Sea on June 17, 1509. It caused a tsunami.

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The earthquake

Date
June 17, 1509
Place
E. China Sea
Epicenter
31.500° N, 121.500° E
Country
China
Region
East Asia

The toll

The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this earthquake.

What the record says

NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.

Reference #414:

1509, June 17 - July 16. There was an earthquake in the region of the mouth of the Yangtzekiang River. Floods of sea water were observed in June on the coast the Yellow Sea at Chiatung (according to the chronicles of the locality of Chiatung). In the summer, floods of sea water were also recorded on the coast at Nanxiang and Wusong (according to the chronicles of the localities of Nanxiang and Wusong).

Reference #79:

1509, June 17 - July 16, near the mouth of the Yangtze, Yellow Sea, China.

Sources NCEI cites

The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.

  1. #414 Soloviev, S.L., and Ch.N. Go (1974). A catalogue of tsunamis on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean [dates include 173-1968. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Nauka Publishing House, Moscow, 439 p. [Canadian Translation of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences no. 5077, 1984, translation available from Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OS2, 447 p.]
  2. #79 Iida, Kumizi, Doak C. Cox, and George Pararas-Carayannis (1967). Preliminary Catalog of Tsunamis Occurring in the Pacific Ocean, HIG-67-10, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 275 p. Bibliography to the Preliminary Catalog of Tsunamis Occurring in the Pacific Ocean, December 1967, 27 p.

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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 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 6004.