June 16, 1662 Earthquake: Yamasiro, Japan

Date

June 16, 1662

Place

Yamasiro, Japan

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

35.500° N, 136.000° E

Country

Japan

Region

East Asia

Deaths

600

Damage

Severe (about $5 to $25 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. #1068 Heck, N.H. (1944). Japanese Earthquakes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 34, no. 3, July 1944, p. 117-136.

• January 18, 1586, Ise Bay, JapanM8.2 · 8,000 deaths · 10,000 houses destroyed · 91 km
• October 27, 1891, Mino-Owari, JapanM8.4 · 7,273 deaths · 142,177 houses destroyed · 91 km
• January 16, 1995, Kobe, Awaji-Shima, Nishinomiya, SW Honshu, JapanM6.9 · 6,434 deaths · $100 billion · 186,175 houses destroyed · 132 km
• June 28, 1948, Fukui, JapanM7.3 · 5,131 deaths · $1 billion · 63,000 houses destroyed · 111 km
• March 7, 1927, SW, Honshu, JapanM7.3 · 3,022 deaths · $40 million · 15,594 houses destroyed · 82 km
• January 12, 1945, S, Honshu, JapanM7.1 · 2,306 deaths · 7,221 houses destroyed · 141 km
• September 10, 1943, S, Honshu, JapanM7.4 · 1,400 deaths · 7,739 houses destroyed · 192 km
• July 9, 1854, Iga, Ise, Yamato, Japan1,352 deaths · 5,000 houses destroyed · 56 km
• December 7, 1944, Off Southeast Coast Kii Peninsula, JapanM8.1 · 1,223 deaths · 29,205 houses destroyed · 195 km
• May 23, 1925, Tajima, Honshu, JapanM6.8 · 395 deaths · 3,333 houses destroyed · 116 km
• August 19, 1830, Kyoto, Japan280 deaths · 56 km
• April 9, 1858, N, Hida, Japan203 deaths · 709 houses destroyed · 146 km
• August 14, 1909, Oomi, JapanM6.9 · 41 deaths · 976 houses destroyed · 29 km
• September 13, 1984, Mt Ontake, Central, Honshu, JapanM6.1 · 29 deaths · $43 million · 138 km
• August 19, 1961, W Coast, Honshu, JapanM7.3 · 10 deaths · 84 km

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