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Historic Earthquake
1901 Aomori-ken Toho-oki Earthquake
9 August 1901 · Off Northeast Coast Honshu · Japan
On 9 August 1901 at 18:33 UTC, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck Japan (Off Northeast Coast Honshu), at a depth of 33 km. It occurred on the Okhotsk Plate, 179 km from its boundary with the Pacific Plate (subduction zone). It killed at least 18 people. 8 homes were destroyed. It is the 48th most powerful of the earthquakes recorded since 1900.
- Date
- 9 August 1901
- Time
- 18:33 UTC
- Magnitude
- 8.2
- Depth
- 33 km
- Deaths
- 18
- Homes Destroyed
- 8
- Tsunami
- See the tsunami (0.3 m wave)
- Plate
- Okhotsk Plate
- Country
- Japan
- Nearest Volcano
- Hakkodasan (120 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 20112011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami · M 9.118,423 deaths
- 20032003 Tokachi Earthquake · M 8.32 deaths
- 19941994 Offshore Sanriku Earthquake · M 7.83 deaths
- 19681968 Tokachi Earthquake · M 8.252 deaths
- 1952Hokkaido · M 8.133 deaths
- 19331933 Sanriku Earthquake · M 8.43,022 deaths
- 1915Near E Coast Honshu · M 7.8
- 19011901 Aomori-ken Toho-oki Earthquake · M 7.9
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth