2006 Yanjin earthquake

2006 Yanjin earthquake

earthquake
title = 2006 Yanji sunami
date = 22 July, 2006


magnitude = 5.2 Mw cite news | url=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usqlac.php#details | date = 2006-07-22 | title = Magnitude 5.2 - SICHUAN-YUNNAN-GUIZHOU REGION, CHINA | accessdate = 2006-07-22 | publisher = USGS Preliminary Report ]
depth = 10.0 km
location = coord|27.992|N|104.215|E (Yanjin County, Zhaotong, Yunnan)
countries affected = China
casualties = At least 19 cite news | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/22/world/main1826764.shtml | date = 2006-07-22 | title = Quake Rocks China, 19 Dead | accessdate = 2006-07-22 | publisher = CBS ] cite news | url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SHA10742.htm | date = 2006-07-22 | title = Moderate quake in southwest China kills 18 | accessdate = 2006-07-22 | publisher = Reuters AlertNet ]

The 2006 Yanjin earthquake was a magnitude 5.2 earthquake in southwestern China. It occurred on July 22, 2006, at 01:10 UTC (09:10 local time). Seismologists have placed the epicentre at coord|27.992|N|104.215|E, and its hypocenter at a depth of 10.0 km. This is 35 km WNW from Zhaotong city and 1740 km SW of Beijing, the capital city of China.

The earthquake toppled at least 1400 houses and sent large boulders tumbling down the hillsides onto residential areas in the mountainous southern regions of the Yunnan province. Chinese officials have been reported as saying that the tremor killed 16 and injured 60 people in Yanjin County, and killed a further three and injured 46 more in nearby Daguan County. cite news
url=http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=124039
date = 2006-07-22
title = Moderate quake in southwest China kills 18
accessdate = 2006-07-23
publisher = The Statesman]

Railroad services in the region have been halted by the quake, as the quake damaged the local railroad tracks, forcing officials to shut down service between Sichuan's Neijiang city and Yunnan's capital of Kunming.

Yanjin County has a population of about 350,000.

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