Earthquake — Japan: Kumamoto, Oita

When

15 Apr 2016

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.0

Where

Japan

Coordinates

32.79° N, 130.75° E

Deaths

273

Injuries

2809

Damage musd

20000

Houses destroyed

43386

Intensity mmi

9

Depth km

10

7.0 Magnitude Earthquake in Japan

The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes were a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 mainshock which struck at 01:25 JST on April 16, 2016 beneath Kumamoto City of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu Region, Japan, at a depth of about 10 kilometres, and a foreshock earthquake with a magnitude 6.2 at 21:26 JST (12:26 UTC) on April 14, 2016, at a depth of about 11 kilometres.

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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 “A series of major earthquakes strikes southwestern Japan, killing 277 people and injuring 2,809”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einer Reihe von Erdbeben in der japanischen Präfektur Kumamoto sterben mehr als 40 Menschen und mehr als 1500 werden verletzt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “4月16日，日本熊本縣發生多次猛烈地震及餘震，4月16日發生的主震強度為日本气象厅地震规模7.3級，有感震動達470次；其中4月14日的一次6.5級前震”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page