The earthquake was the first[citation needed] major one after the establishment of the Seismological Society of Japan (in 1880), and its waves were recorded as far as Potsdam, Germany.

Few houses were affected by fire since the quake occurred at midnight.

According to Tadao Shimoma,[2] the earthquake was a combination of the Tatsuda fault and unsuccessful volcanic activities, since there were injections of aerosol into the air at many places around Mt.

He claimed the Kinpo mountains (now showing no volcanic activities) are similar to Mt.

The photographs were considered the earliest earthquake damage photos in Japan.