Earthquake — Japan: Sanriku

When

15 Jun 1896

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

8.3

Where

Japan

Coordinates

39.50° N, 144.00° E

Deaths

27122

Injuries

9247

Houses destroyed

11000

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Tsunami earthquake in Honshu, Japan

An 8.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 19:32 on June 15, 1896, on the Sanriku coast in Honshu, Japan. It resulted in two tsunami waves which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths. It was one of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history.

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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 8.5 Sanriku earthquake and tsunami kills 22,000 in northeastern Japan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In Japan sterben durch einen Tsunami, ausgelöst durch das Meiji-Sanriku-Erdbeben, über 27.000 Menschen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un tremblement de terre provoque un tsunami qui tue au Japon”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en alta mar, frente a las costas de Iwate, Japón, se registra un terremoto de 8,5”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “明治三陸大津波（死者2万名）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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