What the records say
- When
- 29 Nov 684
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.4
- Where
- Japan
- Coordinates
- 32.50° N, 134.00° E
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
684 Hakuhō earthquake
7th-century earthquake in Japan
The 684 Hakuho earthquake took place in Japan in 684, and is described in the history book Nihon Shoki from the 8th century. The earthquake took place on 26 November 684, in the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Tenmu. It caused the under-sea inundation of approximately 10 km2 (3.9 sq mi) of rice fields.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “684 Hakuho earthquake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “未曽有の大地震（白鳳地震、推定M 8～9）が発生し、諸国で民屋や官舎が倒潰、津波など甚大な被害。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page