In this paper, we reviewed the parameters from various versions of the earthquake catalog, and the historical materials of the Pingyao earthquake in 1614.Through comparing the destructions caused by other historical or modern earthquakes with magnitude from 5.2 to 6.5 in the Shanxi basin we believed that it is more reasonable to define the magnitude of this earthquake as 5?. On the basis of previous research on this earthquake, we applied a new method of seismic parameters revision, focusing on quantitative...