Major Damaging Earthquakes in the Noto Peninsula Area
Date | Magnitude | Major damage |
August 1, 1729 | 6.6 to 7 | 5 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, 1799 | 6.0 | 26 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, 1892 | 6.4 | Some 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, 1933 | 6.0 | 3 fatalities, 55 injured people and 2 houses totally collapsed. |
February 7, 1993 | 6.6 | 30 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)]