This Event Briefing (1) summarizes the seismic characteristics of the 17 June 2019 Yibin City, Sichuan, China earthquake, (2) overviews damage to buildings and other infrastructure, as well as disruption to the community in terms of downtime and economic losses, (3) presents city-scale computational simulations generated shortly after the earthquake, and (4) summarizes key lessons learned. Information provided herein was gathered from various websites, news channels, and computational simulations. Therefore, this briefing does not include insights from detailed field investigations.

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