Episode 1 of 2
1847 Zenkoji Earthquake Dam Failure
- When
- late May 1847, 19 days after 8 May
- Where
- Sai River
A landslide dam on the Sai River failed 19 days after the earthquake, causing a flood that killed 35 people.
The earthquake triggered many landslides, the largest of which dammed the Sai River. 19 days later, the failure of this earthquake dam caused a flood that destroyed many more houses and killed 35 people.
Sources
- 1847 Zenkoji earthquake Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-26
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.