September 20, 1498 Earthquake: Nankaido, Japan

Date

September 20, 1498

Place

Nankaido, Japan

Magnitude

7.5 (Ms)

Tsunami

Yes: the tsunami it caused

Epicenter

33.500° N, 135.200° E

Country

Japan

Damage

Limited (under about $1 million)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

• January 16, 1995, Kobe, Awaji-Shima, Nishinomiya, SW Honshu, JapanM6.9 · 6,434 deaths · $100 billion · 186,175 houses destroyed · 122 km
• October 28, 1707, Nankaido, JapanM8.4 · 5,000 deaths · 77,000 houses destroyed · 50 km
• February 3, 1605, Nankaido, JapanM7.9 · 5,000 deaths · 400 houses destroyed · 62 km
• December 24, 1854, Nankaido, JapanM8.4 · 3,000 deaths · 20,000 houses destroyed · 48 km
• December 20, 1946, S Coast, Honshu, JapanM8.3 · 1,362 deaths · 11,661 houses destroyed · 78 km
• July 9, 1854, Iga, Ise, Yamato, Japan1,352 deaths · 5,000 houses destroyed · 182 km
• December 7, 1944, Off Southeast Coast Kii Peninsula, JapanM8.1 · 1,223 deaths · 29,205 houses destroyed · 184 km
• December 20, 1711, Seionaikai, JapanM6.7 · 1,000 deaths · 1,713 houses destroyed · 142 km
• August 3, 1361, Nankaido, JapanM8.4 · 660 deaths · 1,700 houses destroyed · 59 km
• August 19, 1830, Kyoto, Japan280 deaths · 182 km
• June 17, 2018, Osaka, JapanM5.5 · 5 deaths · $7 billion · 153 km
• August 15, 1331, Sagami, JapanM7 · 22 km
• February 27, 1671, Nankaido, JapanM6.9 · 48 km
• August 26, 887, Nankaido, JapanM8.6 · Deaths: many · 56 km
• August 8, 1808, E. Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, JapanM6.5 · 58 km

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