Earthquake — Japan: Honshu: S Coast

When

20 Dec 1946

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

8.3

Where

Japan

Coordinates

33.12° N, 135.91° E

Deaths

1362

Houses destroyed

11661

Depth km

15

Magnitude 8.1–8.4 earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan

The 1946 Nankai earthquake was a great earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan. It occurred on December 21, 1946, at 04:19 JST. The earthquake measured between 8.1 and 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale, and was felt from Northern Honshū to Kyūshū. It occurred more than two years after the 1944 Tōnankai earthquake, which ruptured the adjacent part of the Nankai megathrust.

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