Earthquake — Taiwan

When

16 Dec 1941

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.1

Where

Taiwan

Coordinates

23.30° N, 120.30° E

Deaths

319

Houses destroyed

1768

Earthquake in Taiwan

The 1941 Chungpu earthquake occurred with a magnitude of 7.2 on December 17, and was centred on the town of Chūho Village, Kagi District, Tainan Prefecture of Taiwan under Japanese rule. It was the fourth-deadliest earthquake of the 20th century in Taiwan, claiming 358 lives.

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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 magnitude 7.1 Chungpu earthquake struck western Taiwan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日屬台灣台南州嘉義郡中埔庄南部發生強度7.1級大地震，震源深度10公里，房屋毀損15086棟，死358人，傷733人。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page