Major Damaging Earthquakes in the Noto Peninsula Area


Damage in Ishikawa prefecture from the earthquakes within the rectangle in the figure below.
DateMagnitudeMajor damage
August 1, 17296.6 to 75 fatalities and 791 houses totally collapsed or partially destroyed in Suzu-gun and Fugeshi-gun. 28 houses totally collapsed in Wajima-mura. More damage on the tip of the Peninsula.
June 29, 17996.026 houses totally collapsed in Kanazaza Castle town. 964 houses totally collapsed in Nomi, Ishikawa, and Kahoku-gun. 21 fatalities for the entire area.
December 9, 18926.4Some houses partially destroyed in Takahama-cho and Hiuchidani-mura, Hakui-gun. 1 fatality, 5 injured people and 2 houses totally collapsed in Sueyoshi, Horimatsu-mura. (There was also a comparable level earthquake on December 11.)
September 21, 19336.03 fatalities, 55 injured people and 2 houses totally collapsed.
February 7, 19936.630 injured people (1 serious injury, 29 minor injuries [one of them in Niigata prefecture])

In addition, recently an earthquake off-shore west of Ishikawa prefecture on June 7, 2000 injured 3 people.



Japan Meteorological Agency
[The Noto Hanto Earthquake in 2007 (March 26, 2007)]