What the records say
- When
- 2 Dec 1611
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.1
- Where
- Japan
- Coordinates
- 39.00° N, 144.50° E
- Deaths
- 5000
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1611 Sanriku earthquake
Earthquake and tsunami affecting Japan
The 1611 Sanriku earthquake occurred on December 2, 1611, with an epicenter off the Sanriku coast in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The magnitude of the earthquake was 8.1Ms. It triggered a devastating tsunami. A description of this event in an official diary from 1612 is probably the first recorded use of the term 'tsunami'.
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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 “December 2 (Keichō 16, 10th month, 28th day) – The 1611 Sanriku earthquake of 8.1 magnitude strikes off of the coast of Japan and causes a tsunami that kills…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Durch das Keichō-Sanriku-Erdbeben und den darauffolgenden Tsunami, der die Sanriku-Küste in Japan trifft und vier Kilometer ins Landesinnere vordringt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Sanriku, en la costa oriental de la isla de Hokkaido se registra un terremoto de 8,1 y un tsunami que dejan un saldo de 5000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “慶長三陸地震。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page