A serious earthquake eccurred in the north-eastern part of Tottori prefecture. The loss of life ammounted to 1117, severely wounded 669, totally destroyed houses 7485 and burned houses 251(statistics for Sept. 17, 1943) The damages were related to the river basin; about 80% of these damages were done in the basin of Hukuro-gawa(river) in the city of Tottori.