What the records say
- When
- 18 Jan 1586
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 35.00° N, 136.80° E
- Deaths
- 8000
- Houses destroyed
- 10000
- Source quake magnitude
- 8.2
- Runups
- 4
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1586 Tenshō earthquake
Earthquake in Japan
The Tenshō earthquake occurred in Japan on January 18, 1586, at 23:00 local time. This earthquake had an estimated seismic magnitude of 7.9, and an epicenter in Honshu's Chūbu region. It caused an estimated 8,000 fatalities and damaged 10,000 houses across the prefectures of Toyama, Hyōgo, Kyōto, Osaka, Nara, Mie, Aichi, Gifu, Fukui, Ishikawa and Shizuoka.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page