Kanazawa

Earthquakes near Kanazawa through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 10 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Kanazawa, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 8.4 on October 27, 1891 (Mino-Owari).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Kanazawa in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: an estimated magnitude 7.4 on May 8, 1847 (Zenkoji, Nagano), for which NOAA records 12,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 18 here, back to AD 701. NOAA records deaths in 12 of the events here, 35,994 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7.5 on January 1, 2024 (2024 Noto Peninsula, Japan Earthquake). NOAA’s record here begins on May 12, 701 with an earthquake (Kyoto Prefecture). It grows thinner going back: 5 of the 18 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 4 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Kanazawa, and 6 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 12.7 m, on May 26, 1983. NOAA lists 6 significant eruptions of 2 volcanoes within 100 km of Kanazawa. The largest was Yakedake on February 11, 1995, at 1 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 4 people by NOAA’s count.

The events

  • January 1, 2024Earthquake · M 7.52024 Noto Peninsula, Japan Earthquake · 549 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • February 11, 1995Eruption · VEI 1Yakedake · 4 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 26, 1983Tsunami · 12.7 m hereNoshiro, JapanNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • October 27, 1891Earthquake · M 8.4 (est.)Mino-Owari · 7,273 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 8, 1847Earthquake · M 7.4 (est.)Zenkoji, Nagano · 12,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • January 18, 1586Earthquake · M 8.2 (est.)Ise Bay · 8,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 12, 701Earthquake · M 7.0 (est.)Kyoto PrefectureNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Kanazawa when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history

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