November 24, 1814 Earthquake: Siping, Yunnan Province, China
A magnitude 6 earthquake struck Siping, Yunnan Province, China on November 24, 1814. It killed 900 people.
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The earthquake
- Date
- November 24, 1814
- Place
- Siping, Yunnan Province, China
- Magnitude
- 6 (Ms)
- Intensity
- 8 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 23.700° N, 102.500° E
- Country
- China
The toll
- Deaths
- 900
- Damage
- Severe (about $5 to $25 million)
- Houses destroyed
- 900
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.
November 24, 1814, Siping, Yunnan Province, 23.7 N, 102.5 E,
magnitude 6, magnitude VII-VIII.
Over 200 rooms in and out of the city collapsed. More than 200 people were killed. Over 700 rooms in mud and tile houses collapsed and more than 700 people were killed or injured in a region (30 km long) from Baxin, east of Yilong
Lake to Longpeng, Baoxiu and Yuntai.
(above from reference #3939)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- January 4, 1970, Hanoi, Yunnan Province, Vietnam, China
- January 4, 1500, Yiliang, Yunnan Province, China
- 1499, Yi Liang, Yunnan Province, China
- September 6, 1833, Yunnan Province, China
- September 9, 1680, Yunnan Province, China
- December 16, 1887, Yunnan Province, China
- August 27, 1799, Yunnan Province, China
- November 30, 1606, Jianshui, Yunnan Province, China
- December 30, 1763, Yunnan Province, China
- December 21, 1913, Yunnan Province, China
- January 8, 1725, Songming, Yiliang, Yunnan Province, China
- January 27, 1755, Yunnan Province, China
- April 6, 1940, Yunnan Province, China
- May 23, 1761, Yunnan Province, China
- 1560, Yunnan 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 1615.