2013 Ya'an earthquake

2013 Ya'an earthquake

The Ya'an earthquake (Chinese: 雅安地震; pinyin: Yă'ān Dìzhèn) happened at 08:02 Beijing Time (00:02 UTC) on April 20, 2013. The epicenter was 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. The magnitude of the earthquake was put at M_s 7.0 by China Earthquake Data Center, M_w 7.0 by Geoscience Australia, M_w 6.6 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS),^[9] M_w 6.6 by the European Alert System (EMSC) and M_j 6.9 by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

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