What the records say
- When
- 20 Dec 1946
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 33.12° N, 135.91° E
- Deaths
- 1362
- Houses destroyed
- 11661
- Max water height m
- 6.6
- Source quake magnitude
- 8.3
- Runups
- 304
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1946 Nankai earthquake
Magnitude 8.1–8.4 earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan
The 1946 Nankai earthquake was a great earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan. It occurred on December 21, 1946, at 04:19 JST. The earthquake measured between 8.1 and 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale, and was felt from Northern Honshū to Kyūshū. It occurred more than two years after the 1944 Tōnankai earthquake, which ruptured the adjacent part of the Nankai megathrust.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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