What the records say
- When
- 7 Mar 1927
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.3
- Where
- Japan
- Coordinates
- 35.60° N, 135.10° E
- Deaths
- 3022
- Injuries
- 3295
- Damage musd
- 40
- Houses destroyed
- 15594
- Depth km
- 10
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 “1927 Kita Tango earthquake: A 7.0 earthquake kills at least 2,925 in the Toyooka and Mineyama areas of western Honshu, in Japan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “北丹後地震”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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