August 19, 1830 Earthquake: Kyoto, Japan

Date

August 19, 1830

Place

Kyoto, Japan

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

35.000° N, 136.000° E

Country

Japan

Deaths

280

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 18, 1586, Ise Bay, JapanM8.2 · 8,000 deaths · 10,000 houses destroyed · 73 km
• October 27, 1891, Mino-Owari, JapanM8.4 · 7,273 deaths · 142,177 houses destroyed · 106 km
• January 16, 1995, Kobe, Awaji-Shima, Nishinomiya, SW Honshu, JapanM6.9 · 6,434 deaths · $100 billion · 186,175 houses destroyed · 96 km
• June 28, 1948, Fukui, JapanM7.3 · 5,131 deaths · $1 billion · 63,000 houses destroyed · 167 km
• March 7, 1927, SW, Honshu, JapanM7.3 · 3,022 deaths · $40 million · 15,594 houses destroyed · 105 km
• January 12, 1945, S, Honshu, JapanM7.1 · 2,306 deaths · 7,221 houses destroyed · 114 km
• October 28, 1707, Enshunada, JapanM8.4 · 2,000 deaths · 10,000 houses destroyed · 193 km
• September 10, 1943, S, Honshu, JapanM7.4 · 1,400 deaths · 7,739 houses destroyed · 194 km
• July 9, 1854, Iga, Ise, Yamato, Japan1,352 deaths · 5,000 houses destroyed · 0 km
• December 7, 1944, Off Southeast Coast Kii Peninsula, JapanM8.1 · 1,223 deaths · 29,205 houses destroyed · 150 km
• December 20, 1711, Seionaikai, JapanM6.7 · 1,000 deaths · 1,713 houses destroyed · 199 km
• June 16, 1662, Yamasiro, Japan600 deaths · 56 km
• December 17, 1096, Enshunada, JapanM8.4 · 400 deaths · 177 km
• May 23, 1925, Tajima, Honshu, JapanM6.8 · 395 deaths · 3,333 houses destroyed · 141 km
• April 9, 1858, N, Hida, Japan203 deaths · 709 houses destroyed · 176 km

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