Lushan County () is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of Ya'an city.
Administrative divisions Lushan County comprises 1 subdistrict, 6 towns and 1 township:
subdistrict Luyang Subdistrict (芦阳街道) towns Feixianguan Town (飞仙关镇) Shuangshi Town (双石镇) Taiping Town (太平镇) Dachuan Town (大川镇) Siyan Town (思延镇) Longmen Town (龙门镇) township Baosheng Township (宝盛乡)
Historical Monuments An ancient monument, located in Lushan County and dating to 205 AD of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is the remains of the mausoleum of Fan Min (). (snippet view only on Google Books) It is known as "Fan Min's Gate Towers and Sculptures" (), and, according to the archaeologist Chêng Tê-k'un (1957), includes the earliest extant full-size tortoise-born stele.. The author's name would be spelled Zheng Dekun in Pinyin. The stele has rounded top with a dragon design in low relief - a precursor to the "two intertwined dragons" design that was very common on such steles even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, over a thousand years later.
2013 earthquake
The earthquake was centered in the district and causing more than 100 deaths and property damage directly and indirectly by the quake and by landslides. In an immediate response, the People's Liberation Army sent about 8,000 soldiers to the impact site, as well as 1,400 provincial rescue workers and 120 support vehicles.
+ Earthquakes with a higher than 5 Date Hour(UTC) Magnitude(USGS) Latitude Longitude Depth April 20, 2013 12:02 am 6.6 30.284°N 102.956°E 12.3 km April 20, 2013 1:11 am 5.0 30.218°N 102.876°E 10 km April 20, 2013 1:37 am 5.1 30.283°N 103.001°E 12 km April 20, 2013 3:34 am 5.1 30.181°N 102.928°E 12.3 km April 20, 2013 8:53 pm 5.2 30.328°N 103.071°E 9.8 km April 21, 2013 3:59 am 5.0 30.209°N 103.032°E 12.2 km April 21, 2013 9:05 am 5.2 30.328°N 102.993°E 9.4 km
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References (Posthumous publication, based on research done in 1909-1917)