Earthquake — Taiwan: Jiayi

When

16 Mar 1906

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.8

Where

Taiwan

Coordinates

23.60° N, 120.50° E

Deaths

1258

Injuries

145

Houses destroyed

6769

Earthquake affecting Taiwan

The 1906 Meishan earthquake was centered on Moe'akhe, Kagi-cho, Japanese Taiwan and occurred on March 17. Referred to at the time as the Great Kagi earthquake, it is the third-deadliest earthquake in Taiwan's recorded history, claiming around 1,260 lives. The shock had a surface-wave magnitude of 6.8 and a Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).

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• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “台灣嘉義的梅山地區發生了規模7.1的大地震，震央在三美莊至開元后之間。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page