Earthquake — Japan: Mino-Owari

When

27 Oct 1891

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

8.4

Where

Japan

Coordinates

35.50° N, 137.00° E

Deaths

7273

Houses destroyed

142177

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Magnitude 8.0 earthquake in Japan

The 1891 Mino–Owari earthquake struck the Japanese provinces of Mino and Owari in the Nōbi Plain in the early morning of October 28 with a surface-wave magnitude of 8.0 and moment magnitude of 7.5. The event, also referred to as the Nōbi earthquake , the Great Gifu earthquake , or the Great Nōbi earthquake , is the largest known inland earthquake to have occurred in the Japanese archipelago.

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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 “The 8.0 Mino–Owari earthquake strikes the Gifu region of Japan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Mino-Owari-Erdbeben erschüttert Japan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “séisme à Nōbi au Japon”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en las antiguas provincias japonesas de Mino y Owari se registra un terremoto de 7,5 que deja un saldo de 7.273 víctimas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “濃尾地震発生（死者7,273名）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page