Earthquake — Japan: Sanriku

When

13 Jul 869

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

8.6

Where

Japan

Coordinates

38.50° N, 143.80° E

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Earthquake and tsunami near the Japanese island of Honshu

The 869 Jōgan earthquake and its associated tsunami struck the area around Sendai in the northern part of Honshu on 9 July 869. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of at least 8.6 on the moment magnitude scale, but may have been as high as 9.0, similar to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami caused widespread flooding of the Sendai plain.

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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 869 Sanriku earthquake and associated tsunami devastate a large part of the Sanriku coast on the northeastern side of the island of Honshu”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Vor der Sanriku-Küste auf der japanischen Insel Honshū kommt es zum Jōgan-Erdbeben mit einem gewaltigen Tsunami, dem etwa tausend Menschen zum Opfer fallen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Sendai (Japón) se registra un terremoto de 9,0 con tsunami y un saldo de 1000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “東北地方で貞観地震が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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