November 5, 1904 Earthquake: Jiayi, Taiwan

Date

November 5, 1904

Time

20:25 UTC

Place

Jiayi, Taiwan

Magnitude

6.3 (Ms)

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

23.500° N, 120.300° E

Country

Taiwan

Deaths

145

Injuries

158

Damage

Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)

Houses destroyed

661

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.

• May 22, 1782, Tainan, Taiwan40,000 deaths · 113 km
• April 20, 1935, Mialoi, TaiwanM6 · 3,276 deaths · 17,907 houses destroyed · 102 km
• July 16, 1935, Xiinzhu, TaiwanM6.5 · 2,746 deaths · 30,000 houses destroyed · 132 km
• September 20, 1999, Nantou, Taichung, Taizhong, TaiwanM7.6 · 2,297 deaths · $14 billion · 64 km
• June 6, 1862, Tainan, TaiwanM6.5 · 2,000 deaths · 33 km
• 1721, Tainan, Taiwan2,000 deaths · 57 km
• March 16, 1906, Jiayi, TaiwanM6.8 · 1,258 deaths · 6,769 houses destroyed · 23 km
• December 3, 1848, Zhanghua, TaiwanM6.8 · 1,001 deaths · 20,300 houses destroyed · 70 km
• February 1845, Zhanghua, TaiwanM6 · 380 deaths · 4,000 houses destroyed · 70 km
• December 16, 1941, TaiwanM7.1 · 319 deaths · 1,768 houses destroyed · 22 km
• January 30, 1736, Tainan, TaiwanM6 · 260 deaths · 500 houses destroyed · 44 km
• August 9, 1792, Jiayi, Tainan, TaiwanM6.8 · 252 deaths · 14,889 houses destroyed · 23 km
• August 28, 1916, TaiwanM6.5 · 180 deaths · 614 houses destroyed · 65 km
• June 27, 1839, Jiayi, TaiwanM6.5 · 117 deaths · 6,600 houses destroyed · 15 km
• February 5, 2016, Tainan, TaiwanM6.4 · 117 deaths · $700 million · 70 km

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Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 2696.