September 21, 1510 Earthquake: Seionaikai, Japan

Date

September 21, 1510

Place

Seionaikai, Japan

Magnitude

6.7 (Ms)

Tsunami

Yes: the tsunami it caused

Epicenter

34.600° N, 135.400° E

Country

Japan

Region

East Asia

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.

1. #150 Iida, Kumizi (1984). Catalog of tsunamis in Japan and its neighboring countries. Aichi Institute of Technology, Yachigusa, Yakusa-cho, Toyota-shi, 470-03, Japan, 52 p.
2. #414 Soloviev, S.L., and Ch.N. Go (1974). A catalogue of tsunamis on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean [dates include 173-1968. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Nauka Publishing House, Moscow, 439 p. [Canadian Translation of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences no. 5077, 1984, translation available from Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OS2, 447 p.]

• January 18, 1586, Ise Bay, JapanM8.2 · 8,000 deaths · 10,000 houses destroyed · 135 km
• October 27, 1891, Mino-Owari, JapanM8.4 · 7,273 deaths · 142,177 houses destroyed · 177 km
• January 16, 1995, Kobe, Awaji-Shima, Nishinomiya, SW Honshu, JapanM6.9 · 6,434 deaths · $100 billion · 186,175 houses destroyed · 30 km
• October 28, 1707, Nankaido, JapanM8.4 · 5,000 deaths · 77,000 houses destroyed · 165 km
• February 3, 1605, Nankaido, JapanM7.9 · 5,000 deaths · 400 houses destroyed · 184 km
• March 7, 1927, SW, Honshu, JapanM7.3 · 3,022 deaths · $40 million · 15,594 houses destroyed · 114 km
• December 24, 1854, Nankaido, JapanM8.4 · 3,000 deaths · 20,000 houses destroyed · 171 km
• January 12, 1945, S, Honshu, JapanM7.1 · 2,306 deaths · 7,221 houses destroyed · 165 km
• September 10, 1943, S, Honshu, JapanM7.4 · 1,400 deaths · 7,739 houses destroyed · 157 km
• December 20, 1946, S Coast, Honshu, JapanM8.3 · 1,362 deaths · 11,661 houses destroyed · 171 km
• July 9, 1854, Iga, Ise, Yamato, Japan1,352 deaths · 5,000 houses destroyed · 71 km
• December 7, 1944, Off Southeast Coast Kii Peninsula, JapanM8.1 · 1,223 deaths · 29,205 houses destroyed · 170 km
• December 20, 1711, Seionaikai, JapanM6.7 · 1,000 deaths · 1,713 houses destroyed · 133 km
• August 3, 1361, Nankaido, JapanM8.4 · 660 deaths · 1,700 houses destroyed · 182 km
• June 16, 1662, Yamasiro, Japan600 deaths · 114 km

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