The 1941 Chungpu earthquake (Chinese: 1941年中埔地震; pinyin: 1941 nián Zhōngpǔ Dìzhèn) occurred with a magnitude of 7.2 on December 17, and was centred on the town of Chūho Village, Kagi District, Tainan Prefecture of Taiwan under Japanese rule.

At a magnitude of 7.2 and with a focal depth of 15 kilometres (9 mi), the quake was felt throughout the island.

[3] This lake has formed and drained several times over the last two hundred years in response to earthquakes and typhoons.

Damage was sustained to infrastructure, with gas, electricity and transportation networks being seriously disrupted.

Coming as it did just ten days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, false rumours abounded that the earthquake was caused by retaliatory United States bombing.