What the records say
- When
- 28 Aug 1916
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.5
- Where
- Taiwan
- Coordinates
- 23.70° N, 120.90° E
- Deaths
- 180
- Houses destroyed
- 614
- Intensity mmi
- 8
1916–1917 Nantou earthquakes
Earthquakes in Taiwan
The 1916–1917 Nantou earthquakes affected central Taiwan in 1916 and 1917, causing heavy damage in sparsely populated Nanto Chō and claiming 71 lives. The strongest quake registered at 6.8 ML and besides the loss of life caused widespread damage to agricultural and forestry industries in central Taiwan.
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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 largest in the Nantou earthquake sequence occurred”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page