Chart 3: Principle earthquake disasters since the Great Kanto Earthquake
Major Earthquake Disasters Since the Great Kanto Earthquake
Date of occurrence
Name of earthquake
M
Deaths
Buildings Houses
Sept. 2, 1923
The Great Kanto Earthquake
7.9
142,807
576,262
Jan 15, 1924
Tasawa-Sanroku Earthquake
7.3
19
1,298
May 23, 1925
Kita-Tajima Earthquake
6.8
428
3,475
Mar 7, 1927
Kita-Tango Earthquake
7.3
2,925
16,295
Nov. 26, 1930
Kita-Izu Earthquake
7.3
272
2,240
Sept. 21, 1931
Nishi-Saitama Earthquake
6.9
16
206,7
Mar 3, 1933
Sanriku-Oki Earthquake
8.1
3,008
7,479
July 11, 1935
Shizuoka Earthquake
6.4
9
814
May 1, 1939
Oga-hanto Earthquake
6.8
27
585
Sept. 10, 1943
Tottori Earthquake
7.2
1,083
7,736
Dec. 7, 1944
Higashi-Nankai Earthquake
7.9
998
29,189
Jan 13, 1945
Mikawa Earthquake
6.8
1,961
12,142
Dec. 21, 1946
Nankai Earthquake
8.0
1,432
15,640
Jun. 28, 1948
Fukui Earthquake
7.1
3,895
39,111
Dec. 26, 1949
Imaichi Earthquake
6.2
8
873
Mar 4, 1942
Tokachi-Oki Earthquake
8.2
33
906
May 23, 1960
Chile Earthquake Tsunami
8.5
139
2,830
Feb. 2, 1961
Nagaoka Earthquake
5.2
5
220
Apr. 30, 1962
Miyagi-ken Hokubu Earthquake
6.5
3
369
Jun. 16, 1964
Niigata Earthquake
7.5
26
2,250
Feb. 21, 1968
Ebino Earthquake
6.1
3
368
May 16, 1968
1968 Tokachi-Oki Earthquake
7.9
52
691
May 9, 1974
1974 Izu-hanto-Oki Earthquake
6.9
30
139,
Jan 14, 1978
1978 Izu-Oshima Kinkai Earthquake
7.0
25
94
Jun. 12, 1978
1978 Miyagi-Ken-Oki Earthquake
7.4
28
1,383
Mar 21, 1982
1982 Uraga-Oki Earthquake
7.1
-
13
May 26, 1983
1983 Nihonkai Chubu Earthquake
7.7
104
1,584
Sept. 14, 1984
1984 Nagano-Ken Seibu Earthquake
6.8
29
14
Mar 18, 1987
Hyuga-nada Earthquake
6.6
1
-
Dec. 17, 1987
Chiba-Ken Toho-Oki Earthquake
6.7
2
16
Jan 15, 1993
1993 Kushiro-Oki Earthquake
7.8
2
54
July 12, 1993
1993 Hokkaido Nansei-Oki Earthquake
7.8
230
601
Oct 4, 1994
1994 Hokkaido Toho-Oki Earthquake
8.1
-
61
Dec. 28, 1994
1994 Sanriku Haruka-Oki Earthquake
7.5
3
72
Jan 17, 1995
1995 Hyogo-Ken Nanbu Earthquake
7.2
6,312
100,163
(Notes)
"Buildings/Houses" indicates the number of totally destroyed, burnt down or
washed away buildings, and includes non-housing.
Deaths" includes missing persons.
For dates after 1985, we have selected earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or over, or which
generated fatalities.
The magnitude figures from 1923 to 1925 are taken from "Chronological Scientific
Tables" (edited by the National Astronomical Observatory)"
The magnitude figures from 1923 to 1925 are recalculated by the Japan Meteorological
Agency. Figures for the "1995 Hyogo-Ken Nanbu earthquake" are as of Nov. 18,
1996.
