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Mt. Unzen Volcanic Eruption
Mt. Unzen consists of a group of composite volcanoes and they are located east of Nagasaki. The initial eruption triggered a landslide and tsunami killing a range from 12,000-15,000 people. Though most of the people were killed as a result of the landslide and tsunami. -
North Kyushu Typhoon/Tidal Wave
According to official confirmed report, at the time of passing, estimated to central pressure is 935hPa, with maximum wind speed 55 m/s. Storm surge occurs in such as the Ariake Sea, Hakata Bay, official death toll was 19,113 people -
Great Kantō Earthquake/Tsunami
Deadliest disaster in Japanese history. The 1927 Japanese government report gave the number of victims as 140,000, this was adjusted downwards to 105,385 deaths in 2006. -
Tonankai earthquake
The quake was about 20 km off the Shima Peninsula in Japan, mainly striking coastal areas like Mie, Aichi and Shizuoka Prefectures. As the result of the ongoing Second War at the time, the news on the event was downplayed by the authorities in order to protect wartime morale, and as a result the full extent of the damage was never known. However, it was estimated that the quake had killed over 1300 people, the tsunami waves being the leading cause of the casualties. -
Nankaidō earthquake
The quake was a magnitude 8.4 and reported to be one of the Nankai’s mega-thrust earthquakes which are periodic quakes occurring off the southern coast of Kii Peninsula and Shikoku the quake gave rise to enormous tsunami waves that washed away 1451 houses and caused over a 1500 deaths. -
Nihonkai-Chubu earthquake
about 100 km west of the coast of Noshiro in Akita Prefecture, Japan. The quake lasted for about 60 seconds measuring a 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale, which resulted in tsunami waves up to 10 meters high, killing about a 100 people. -
Hokkaidō earthquake
The quake had a magnitude of 7.7 but didn’t do as much harm on land as it did through sea; the tsunami waves that were triggered by the quake were surely some of the historic tsunami waves the world had ever seen, causing deaths on Hokkaido and all the way up to southwestern Russia, with a total of 230 fatalities. -
Great Hanshin earthquake
The quake measured to be 6.8 and lasted for twenty seconds destroying 150,000 buildings, the collapse of about a kilometer of the Hanshin Expressway and also causing the destruction of 120 of the 150 quays in the port of Kobe, and fires which raged over a large portion of the city due to uncontrolled gas leakages. -
Sakurajima Volcano
Fire columns as high as 100 m were witnessed, being accompanied by 116 times of volcanic lightning. According to the field inspections, ballistics scattered about 3 to 4 km away from the Minamidake crater by this eruption. -
Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The quake was measured at 9.0 and the epicenter was approximately 43 miles east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 19 miles. The quake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 meters in Miyako in Tōhoku Iwate Prefecture.
