September 28, 1704 Earthquake: Longxian, Shaanxi Province, China
A magnitude 6 earthquake struck Longxian, Shaanxi Province, China on September 28, 1704.
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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
- September 28, 1704
- Place
- Longxian, Shaanxi Province, China
- Magnitude
- 6 (Ms)
- Intensity
- 8 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 34.900° N, 106.800° E
- Country
- China
The toll
- Deaths
- Very many (over 1,000)
- Damage
- Severe (about $5 to $25 million)
- Houses destroyed
- Many (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.
September 28, 1704, Longxian, Shaanxi Province, 34.9 N, 106.8 E, magnitude 6, intensity VII-VIII.
Prefecture offices were destroyed, all civilian houses
collapsed, and Xianggong Hill (7.5 km east of the
county town) slid. Countless people were killed.
Baoji: Houses were destroyed and some people were
injured.
Earth quaked in Jingyang, Chenggu of Shaanxi Province; and Zhenyuan of Gansu Province on the same day, and in Zhengning and Wushan in the same month. (reference #3939)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- June 19, 1718, Gansu Province, China
- October 25, 1622, Pingliang, Longde, Ningxia, China
- July 21, 1654, Tianshui, Gansu Province, China
- June 2, 1219, Ningxia, China
- September 12, 1306, Kaicheng, Ningxia, China
- September 2, 1765, Wushan, Gangu, Gansu Province, China
- August 10, 1487, Lintong, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China
- February 22, 186 BC, Gansu Province, China
- August 1, 1936, Gansu Province, China
- March 19, 734, Tianshui, Gansu Province, China
- January 14, 1885, Gansu Province, China
- November 21, 1748, Ningxia, China
- January 1634, Xihe, Gansu Province, China
- December 1634, Lingtai, Gansu Province, China
- July 3, 1343, Nan Pi Tsin Nan, Hunan 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 7920.