Earthquake — Japan: Honshu: W Coast

When

16 Jul 2007

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.6

Where

Japan

Coordinates

37.57° N, 138.48° E

Deaths

15

Injuries

2346

Damage musd

12500

Houses destroyed

1331

Depth km

10

Earthquake in Japan

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred 10:13 local time on July 16, 2007, at a previously unknown offshore fault in the northwest Niigata Prefecture of Japan. The city of Kashiwazaki and the villages of Iizuna and Kariwa registered the highest seismic intensity of a strong 6 on Japan's shindo scale, and the quake was felt as far away as Tokyo.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake, eleven deaths and at least 1000 injuries were reported, and 342 buildings destroyed”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Japón, un terremoto de 6,6 sacude la ciudad de Niigata dejando 11 muertos y 1000 heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “新潟県中越沖地震が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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