The Keichō–Fushimi earthquake (Japanese: 慶長伏見地震, Hepburn: Keicho–Fushimi Jishin) struck Japan on September 5, 1596.

The earthquake measuring 7.5 ± 0.25 MJMA produced intense shaking (evaluated at Shindo 6) across the Kansai region.

While a large component of the convergence is accommodated by subduction along the Nankai and Japan Trenches, shallow intraplate deformation occurs as well.

Due to the ongoing oblique subduction of the Philippine Sea plate, right-lateral strike-slip deformation occurs in Japan.

The understanding of earthquakes along the Japan MTL is limited due to its very long seismic recurrence intervals of up to 3,000 years.

Ruins of the castle including its stone foundation and other artefacts were excavated near Momoyama Station.

[7] The Daibutsu, a Buddha statue at Hōkō-ji was heavily damaged—in an account by a priest at Daigo-ji, its chest collapsed initially followed by both hands.

[11] Paleoseismological studies on the Japan MTL and Arima–Takatsuki–Rokko–Awaji Fault (ATRAF) began after the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995.

A surface rupture associated with the earthquake was traced along the Gosukebashi Fault (northern segment of the ATRAF) at the eastern side of Mount Rokkō.

Surface rupturing may also have occurred along the Higashiura and Nojima faults, southern segments of the ATRAF.