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The 1933 Diexi earthquake occurred in
Diexi, Mao County Diexi (; ) is a town in Mao County, Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan, China. As of 2000, it has a population of 2,697. The old town of Diexi was destroyed in the 1933 Diexi earthquake The 1933 Diexi earthquake occurred in Diexi, Mao County, Szechw ...
, Szechwan, Republic of China on August 25 with a
moment magnitude The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with or Mw, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment. It was defined in a 1979 pape ...
of 7.3 and a maximum
Mercalli intensity The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS), developed from Giuseppe Mercalli's Mercalli intensity scale of 1902, is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of shaking produced by an earthquake. It measures the eff ...
of X (''Extreme''). With up to 9,300 killed, this was the deadliest earthquake in 1933. This earthquake destroyed the town of Diexi and surrounding villages, and caused many landslides. The old town of Diexi was submerged in
landslide dam A landslide dam or barrier lake is the natural damming of a river by some kind of landslide, such as a debris flow, rock avalanche or volcanic eruption. If the damming landslide is caused by an earthquake, it may also be called a quake lake. Some ...
-created Diexi Lake.


See also

* 2008 Sichuan earthquake *
List of earthquakes in 1933 This is a list of earthquakes in 1933. Only magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes appear on the list. Lower magnitude events are included if they have caused death, injury or damage. Events which occurred in remote areas will be excluded from the ...
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List of earthquakes in China This is a List of earthquakes in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. China has been the location of some of the most deadly earthquakes in history. The deadliest was the 1976 Tangshan earthquake with 300,000+ deaths. Earth ...
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List of earthquakes in Sichuan This is a list of earthquakes that occurred in Sichuan province of China. Earthquakes with magnitude of 7.0 or greater Earthquakes registering magnitudes between 6.0 and 6.9 See also *List of earthquakes in Yunnan References {{Earthqu ...


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* 1933 in China 1933 Diexi 1933 earthquakes 1930 disasters in China {{China-stub