Earthquake — Japan: Sanriku

When

2 Mar 1933

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

8.4

Where

Japan

Coordinates

39.21° N, 144.59° E

Deaths

3022

Houses destroyed

6000

Depth km

15

Earthquake off the coast of Japan

The 1933 Sanriku earthquake occurred on the Sanriku coast of the Tōhoku region of Honshū, Japan on March 2 with a moment magnitude of 8.4. The associated tsunami caused widespread devastation.

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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 “1933 Sanriku earthquake: A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honshū, Japan, killing approximately 3,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Shōwa-Sanriku-Erdbeben vor der japanischen Sanriku-Küste hat eine Stärke 8,4 auf der Momenten-Magnituden-Skala”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la costa de Sanriku, Japón, un terremoto de 8,4, seguido de un tsunami, causan la muerte de más de 3.000 personas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “昭和三陸地震（M8.1、死者1522名、不明1542名、負傷1万2053名）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Tsunami — Sanriku2 Mar 1933 · Tsunami