The 1976 Songpan–Pingwu earthquake that struck Songpan and Pingwu counties in Sichuan, China consisted of three mainshocks on the 16th, 21st, and 23rd (UTC) of August.

[9] These were preceded by an earthquake swarm lasting three years.

[11] There were 38 dead in the four counties struck—Songpan, Pingwu, Maowen and Nanping.

The earthquake was felt as far as Gaotai, Gansu to the west, Kunming, Yunnan to the south, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia to the north, and Changsha, Hunan to the east; an area with a maximum radius of 1,150 kilometers (714 miles).

[12] The total number of casualties was 800, 600 of them slightly injured, mostly due to mudslides.