29,000 houses were destroyed and more than 5,000 people were killed. the earthquake caused at least one major landslide in shizuoka. this landslide was one of the three largest in japan and is called the ohya landslide. it covered an area of 1.8 km2 with an estimated volume of 120 million m3. in the nara basin, the earthquake made the soil behave like a liquid.