TODAY IN EARTHQUAKE HISTORY

The following events of Mw>=7 have occurred on this date in recorded history:
MO/DA/YEAR LAT/ LONG LOCATION
1/ 31/1605 33.400 133.300 7.9 Kyushu, Japan area
Also given date as Feb. 2-3. 700 houses - 41% of the town of KIRO was destroyed. A strong tsunami was generated which washed away KIRO and drowned 3600 in Shishikui, Awa with maximum height 7 meters. 50 were drowned at Sakihama and 350 more at Kannoura. More than 5,000 drowned in the area. To the east of the Emjimada area castles at Tawara in Atsumi and Kakegawa were destroyed. 80% of the houses at Ari were washed away in the tsunami which hit the coast from Ise Shima to Boso. More than 1,000 people were drowned in this area.
1/ 31/1900 48.000 146.000 7.5 So. Kurils
1/ 31/1906 1.000 -81.500 8.9 Ecuador
This was a catastrophic earthquake which generated a tsunami off the coast of Ecuador and Colombia. Several foreshocks occurred. The entire city of Tumaco appeared to move and houses rose and fell like ships on the ocean. It was impossible to move or to take a single step. A loud earthquake noise accompanied the event. Non-wooden structures were completely destroyed. On Pindo Island cracks opened and closed on the beach. Citizens were in panic. The earthquake generated a tsunami with maximum height 5 meters which submerged part of the city and washed several islands away. Several homes were destroyed in the tsunami. Felt from Tumaco to Esmeraldas to Micay. 30 homes collapsed at Esmeraldas. Heavy damage occurred at Limones and two were killed. Houses also collapsed at Guapi and Rioverde. Fires followed. The ground cracked on Cape Manglares and water gushed. At Buenaventura stone structures and churches were damaged. The tsunami was notable throughout Central America and was observed as far as Hawaii and San Francisco, California.
1/ 31/1912 61.000 -147.500 7.2 Central Alaska
Felt throughout the Prince William Sound area in Copper and Tanana Valley. Strongly felt at Fairbanks and Valdez. Undersea cables broke.
1/ 31/1922 40.870 -125.350 7.3 Off Coast of No. California
A large sub-oceanic earthquake which was felt with maximum intensity of VI at Eureka. Also felt at San Jose on the south and northward into Oregon and eastward as far as northwestern Nevada.
1/ 31/1956 -3.250 152.250 7.1 New Britain
1/ 31/1973 28.267 139.767 7.0 Bonin Islands
Felt on Hachijo-jima and Miyake-jima and as far north as Tateyama and Tokyo.
1/ 31/1974 -7.461 155.894 7.0 Solomon Islands
Followed a foreshock of M 5.8. Felt strongly on Bougainville Island with intensity VI at Arawa and with V at Panguna and Shortland Island. A tsunami was generated with maximum height 4.6 meters which did damaged on the coasts of Shortland (Korovu) and Choiseul.
1/ 31/1996 44.455 149.372 7.1 Hokkaido, Japan
Felt with maximum intensity at Kurils, Iturup and in the southern portion of Urup.