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The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) officially named this earthquake the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake (Japanese: 令和6年能登半島地震, Hepburn: Reiwa 6-nen Noto-hantō Jishin). [5] It led to Japan's first major tsunami warning since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, [6] and a tsunami of 6.58 m (22 ft) was measured along the Sea of Japan ...
The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes were about 140 km (87 mi) northwest of the 2024 Hyūga-nada earthquake and were caused by a similar subduction zone. [2] About 2 km (1.2 mi) beneath the seafloor, low-frequency earthquakes, occur near the shallow subduction interface.
List of earthquakes in Japan. "Japanese earthquake" redirects here. For the 11 March 2011 earthquake in the Tōhoku region, see 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Earthquakes M5.5+ around Japan (1900–2016) M7.0–7.9=163 EQs, M8.0+=14 EQs. [1] This is a list of earthquakes in Japan with either a magnitude greater than or equal to 7.0 or ...
August 15, 2024 at 4:40 AM. By Kantaro Komiya. TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Thursday ended its call for higher-than-usual risks of a major earthquake, one week after a strong tremor on the edge of ...
2024 Noto earthquake: 2 7.4 18 Taiwan, Hualien offshore VIII (Severe) 40.0 April 2 2024 Hualien earthquake: 2 7.4 1 Chile, Antofagasta: VII (Very strong) 117.4 July 19 - 3 7.2 0 Peru, Arequipa offshore VI (Strong) 28.0 June 28 - 4 7.1 0 Japan, Miyazaki offshore VIII (Severe) 25.0 August 8 2024 Hyūga-nada earthquake: 4 7.1 0
Aftershocks. >300 (as of 21 October 2023) Largest is Mw 5.6 [3][4] Casualties. 1 dead, 49 injured. On 5 May 2023, a M JMA 6.5 or M w 6.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. [5][6] It was located 49 kilometres (30 miles) northeast of Anamizu, Hōsu District, with the town of Suzu closest to the epicenter.
Nankai megathrust earthquakes (Japanese: 南海トラフ巨大地震, Hepburn: Nankai Torafu Kyodai Jishin) are great megathrust earthquakes that occur along the Nankai megathrust – the fault under the Nankai Trough – which forms the plate interface between the subducting Philippine Sea Plate and the overriding Amurian Plate (part of the Eurasian Plate), which dips beneath southwestern ...
2024 Noto earthquake: Earthquake and Tsunami: 1 Jan 2024: Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture: Additional damage was also caused by a 6.58 m (21.6 ft) tsunami. 3 people are still missing, with damage and injuries also occurring in Niigata, Toyama, Fukui, Osaka, Nagano, Hyōgo and Gifu Prefectures. 304 (Official) Sekirei Maru: Shipwreck 20 Dec 1945