What the records say
- When
- 4 Nov 1677
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 35.00° N, 141.50° E
- Deaths
- 500
- Houses destroyed
- 1001
- Max water height m
- 8
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.4
- Runups
- 27
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1677 Bōsō earthquake
The Bōsō Peninsula in Japan was struck by a major tsunami on 4 November 1677, caused by an earthquake at the southern end of the Japan Trench. It was felt onshore with only a maximum of 4 on the JMA intensity scale, but had an estimated magnitude of 8.3–8.6 Mw. The disparity between the maximum intensity and the magnitude estimated from the tsunami suggest that this was a tsunami earthquake.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page