What the records say
- When
- 26 May 1983
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.7
- Where
- Japan
- Coordinates
- 40.46° N, 139.10° E
- Deaths
- 104
- Injuries
- 324
- Damage musd
- 800
- Intensity mmi
- 8
- Depth km
- 24
3 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 7.8 Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Japón, se registra un terremoto de 7,8 y un destructivo tsunami con olas de hasta 10 metros que dejan 104 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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