Earthquakes near Komatsu, 2017–2026

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 549 deaths for it. One earthquake here in these years is on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. 2024 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 25 of the 36. 17 came in the 30 days after the strongest, within 150 km of it. NOAA lists one tsunami from elsewhere that reached the coast within 100 km of Komatsu with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 11.34 m, on January 1, 2024.

• January 1, 2024Earthquake · M 7.52024 Noto Peninsula, Japan Earthquake · 549 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• January 1, 2024Earthquake · M 6.28 km SW of Anamizu, JapanUSGS
• January 1, 2024Tsunami · 11.34 m hereW CoastNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Komatsu when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
• USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
• NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
• Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
• A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
• Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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