The Houli quake was triggered by slippage along the Shihtan and Tuntzuchiao faults and caused more than 3,000 deaths. Houli elementary school, then a Japanese public elementary school, sat directly on a fault line and was completely destroyed.
發生在一九三五年的「新竹──台中」地震，造成獅潭斷層與屯子腳斷層平移，死亡三千多人，當時在斷層線上的后里國小仍是日本公小學，因學校毀掉而設紀念碑。