What the records say
- When
- 16 May 1968
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.2
- Where
- Japan
- Coordinates
- 40.80° N, 143.20° E
- Deaths
- 52
- Injuries
- 330
- Damage musd
- 131
- Houses destroyed
- 1218
- Intensity mmi
- 6
- Depth km
- 7
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 “1968 Tokachi earthquake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日本で十勝沖地震（M7.9）が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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