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Earthquakes in Japan

62,940 earthquakes catalogued in and around Japan between 1900 and 2026. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
3.8
Latest earthquake · depth 40 km
04.08.2026 08:06 UTC · from centre 915 km
62,940
recorded earthquakes
M9.1
largest
1900–2026
record span
4.33
mean magnitude
61,604
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

0349169821900: 6 (M5+)19001901: 7 (M5+)1902: 9 (M5+)1903: 1 (M5+)1904: 5 (M5+)1905: 7 (M5+)1906: 10 (M5+)1907: 9 (M5+)1908: 4 (M5+)1909: 13 (M5+)1910: 7 (M5+)19101911: 7 (M5+)1912: 3 (M5+)1913: 13 (M5+)1914: 4 (M5+)1915: 15 (M5+)1916: 13 (M5+)1917: 12 (M5+)1918: 5 (M5+)1919: 5 (M5+)1920: 6 (M5+)19201921: 13 (M5+)1922: 10 (M5+)1923: 26 (M5+)1924: 22 (M5+)1925: 17 (M5+)1926: 31 (M5+)1927: 53 (M5+)1928: 34 (M5+)1929: 27 (M5+)1930: 24 (M5+)19301931: 40 (M5+)1932: 31 (M5+)1933: 81 (M5+)1934: 40 (M5+)1935: 39 (M5+)1936: 29 (M5+)1937: 33 (M5+)1938: 76 (M5+)1939: 22 (M5+)1940: 28 (M5+)19401941: 19 (M5+)1942: 14 (M5+)1943: 19 (M5+)1944: 14 (M5+)1945: 18 (M5+)1946: 8 (M5+)1947: 13 (M5+)1948: 16 (M5+)1949: 5 (M5+)1950: 12 (M5+)19501951: 11 (M5+)1952: 43 (M5+)1953: 23 (M5+)1954: 24 (M5+)1955: 22 (M5+)1956: 18 (M5+)1957: 14 (M5+)1958: 5 (M4–5)1958: 34 (M5+)1959: 1 (M4–5)1959: 23 (M5+)1960: 2 (M4–5)1960: 28 (M5+)19601961: 19 (M4–5)1961: 32 (M5+)1962: 47 (M4–5)1962: 35 (M5+)1963: 41 (M4–5)1963: 37 (M5+)1964: 4 (M3–4)1964: 246 (M4–5)1964: 65 (M5+)1965: 8 (M3–4)1965: 245 (M4–5)1965: 61 (M5+)1966: 6 (M3–4)1966: 291 (M4–5)1966: 68 (M5+)1967: 2 (M3–4)1967: 305 (M4–5)1967: 52 (M5+)1968: 6 (M3–4)1968: 690 (M4–5)1968: 182 (M5+)1969: 5 (M3–4)1969: 289 (M4–5)1969: 78 (M5+)1970: 3 (M3–4)1970: 232 (M4–5)1970: 60 (M5+)19701971: 2 (M3–4)1971: 193 (M4–5)1971: 81 (M5+)1972: 8 (M3–4)1972: 334 (M4–5)1972: 78 (M5+)1973: 89 (M3–4)1973: 412 (M4–5)1973: 99 (M5+)1974: 45 (M3–4)1974: 383 (M4–5)1974: 86 (M5+)1975: 19 (M3–4)1975: 295 (M4–5)1975: 94 (M5+)1976: 16 (M3–4)1976: 277 (M4–5)1976: 80 (M5+)1977: 6 (M3–4)1977: 252 (M4–5)1977: 81 (M5+)1978: 13 (M3–4)1978: 406 (M4–5)1978: 93 (M5+)1979: 17 (M3–4)1979: 290 (M4–5)1979: 57 (M5+)1980: 11 (M3–4)1980: 337 (M4–5)1980: 76 (M5+)19801981: 12 (M3–4)1981: 290 (M4–5)1981: 98 (M5+)1982: 13 (M3–4)1982: 463 (M4–5)1982: 104 (M5+)1983: 7 (M3–4)1983: 591 (M4–5)1983: 137 (M5+)1984: 11 (M3–4)1984: 464 (M4–5)1984: 89 (M5+)1985: 14 (M3–4)1985: 611 (M4–5)1985: 145 (M5+)1986: 13 (M3–4)1986: 454 (M4–5)1986: 91 (M5+)1987: 12 (M3–4)1987: 402 (M4–5)1987: 79 (M5+)1988: 1 (M<3)1988: 16 (M3–4)1988: 370 (M4–5)1988: 63 (M5+)1989: 18 (M<3)1989: 94 (M3–4)1989: 464 (M4–5)1989: 117 (M5+)1990: 27 (M3–4)1990: 417 (M4–5)1990: 78 (M5+)19901991: 21 (M3–4)1991: 378 (M4–5)1991: 45 (M5+)1992: 55 (M3–4)1992: 571 (M4–5)1992: 112 (M5+)1993: 46 (M3–4)1993: 691 (M4–5)1993: 77 (M5+)1994: 43 (M3–4)1994: 509 (M4–5)1994: 94 (M5+)1995: 92 (M3–4)1995: 988 (M4–5)1995: 109 (M5+)1996: 292 (M3–4)1996: 638 (M4–5)1996: 65 (M5+)1997: 3 (M<3)1997: 205 (M3–4)1997: 538 (M4–5)1997: 74 (M5+)1998: 221 (M3–4)1998: 519 (M4–5)1998: 70 (M5+)1999: 160 (M3–4)1999: 465 (M4–5)1999: 58 (M5+)2000: 1 (M<3)2000: 318 (M3–4)2000: 1,085 (M4–5)2000: 158 (M5+)20002001: 191 (M3–4)2001: 544 (M4–5)2001: 70 (M5+)2002: 199 (M3–4)2002: 643 (M4–5)2002: 85 (M5+)2003: 371 (M<3)2003: 179 (M3–4)2003: 843 (M4–5)2003: 109 (M5+)2004: 203 (M<3)2004: 228 (M3–4)2004: 989 (M4–5)2004: 130 (M5+)2005: 55 (M<3)2005: 276 (M3–4)2005: 965 (M4–5)2005: 104 (M5+)2006: 36 (M<3)2006: 300 (M3–4)2006: 707 (M4–5)2006: 53 (M5+)2007: 31 (M<3)2007: 366 (M3–4)2007: 767 (M4–5)2007: 77 (M5+)2008: 32 (M<3)2008: 546 (M3–4)2008: 892 (M4–5)2008: 90 (M5+)2009: 76 (M3–4)2009: 506 (M4–5)2009: 62 (M5+)2010: 172 (M3–4)2010: 1,153 (M4–5)2010: 106 (M5+)20102011: 763 (M3–4)2011: 5,493 (M4–5)2011: 726 (M5+)2012: 224 (M3–4)2012: 1,216 (M4–5)2012: 133 (M5+)2013: 145 (M3–4)2013: 863 (M4–5)2013: 103 (M5+)2014: 178 (M3–4)2014: 978 (M4–5)2014: 75 (M5+)2015: 188 (M3–4)2015: 947 (M4–5)2015: 87 (M5+)2016: 164 (M3–4)2016: 1,058 (M4–5)2016: 114 (M5+)2017: 1 (M<3)2017: 134 (M3–4)2017: 704 (M4–5)2017: 87 (M5+)2018: 194 (M3–4)2018: 719 (M4–5)2018: 82 (M5+)2019: 188 (M3–4)2019: 730 (M4–5)2019: 69 (M5+)2020: 1 (M<3)2020: 381 (M3–4)2020: 730 (M4–5)2020: 75 (M5+)20202021: 515 (M3–4)2021: 975 (M4–5)2021: 84 (M5+)2022: 488 (M3–4)2022: 1,168 (M4–5)2022: 113 (M5+)2023: 470 (M3–4)2023: 1,013 (M4–5)2023: 117 (M5+)2024: 11 (M<3)2024: 652 (M3–4)2024: 1,019 (M4–5)2024: 98 (M5+)2025: 47 (M<3)2025: 763 (M3–4)2025: 1,070 (M4–5)2025: 134 (M5+)2026: 26 (M<3)2026: 704 (M3–4)2026: 666 (M4–5)2026: 73 (M5+)2026
M<3M3–4M4–5M5+

Read this chart carefully. Rising columns do not mean earthquakes are becoming more frequent. The monitoring network improved over time: the smallest detectable earthquake in Türkiye was about M5.0 in 1966 and is M1.5 today. Earlier years look quiet because small events were not heard, not because they did not happen.

Largest earthquakes

Inclusion rule: the radius widens with magnitude (15 km up to M4, 150 km at M7 and above). This is not a measure of felt shaking or intensity.

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
9.111.03.2011 05:4619.7 km802 km
8.402.03.1933 17:3115 km1019 km
8.325.09.2003 19:5026.4 km1146 km
8.204.10.1994 13:2329.2 km1511 km
8.216.05.1968 00:4812.1 km1021 km
8.112.04.1910 00:22235 km1377 km
8.107.12.1944 04:3515 km188 km
8.104.03.1952 01:2245 km1157 km
8.120.12.1946 19:1915 km223 km
7.915.06.1911 14:25150 km840 km
7.905.11.1938 08:4335 km708 km
7.901.09.1923 02:5815 km419 km
7.925.11.1953 17:4825 km635 km
7.911.03.2011 06:1525.4 km597 km
7.930.05.2015 11:23685.5 km945 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
3.804.08.2026 08:0640 km915 km
3.104.08.2026 05:1910 km471 km
4.404.08.2026 05:060 km471 km
4.404.08.2026 04:46105.4 km548 km
3.704.08.2026 03:1520 km821 km
3.004.08.2026 01:4710 km457 km
3.703.08.2026 22:1210 km471 km
3.903.08.2026 21:0410 km457 km
4.103.08.2026 20:3210 km449 km
4.503.08.2026 15:5435 km952 km
3.103.08.2026 13:2130 km1072 km
3.103.08.2026 11:2110 km471 km
3.003.08.2026 07:2410 km430 km
3.103.08.2026 06:0010 km485 km
4.303.08.2026 05:3051 km1067 km
3.703.08.2026 04:3210 km477 km
3.102.08.2026 21:4110 km484 km
4.802.08.2026 14:4962.6 km1111 km
3.502.08.2026 13:5810 km463 km
3.202.08.2026 11:2010 km471 km
3.202.08.2026 11:070 km449 km
3.402.08.2026 10:3910 km471 km
3.102.08.2026 10:2210 km443 km
3.902.08.2026 10:1040 km991 km
3.702.08.2026 10:0510 km471 km
4.602.08.2026 10:0010 km463 km
3.902.08.2026 01:3850 km673 km
3.102.08.2026 00:4810 km463 km
4.802.08.2026 00:4556.4 km931 km
3.502.08.2026 00:1910 km457 km
3.101.08.2026 23:1750 km832 km
3.301.08.2026 19:3410 km463 km
5.201.08.2026 19:1026.2 km408 km
4.601.08.2026 16:0710 km477 km
3.101.08.2026 15:4010 km471 km
3.201.08.2026 13:130 km477 km
4.901.08.2026 12:4710 km452 km
3.801.08.2026 09:410 km471 km
3.301.08.2026 09:2220 km498 km
3.601.08.2026 07:490 km449 km
4.401.08.2026 06:0135 km1377 km
3.201.08.2026 05:5810 km449 km
3.001.08.2026 04:0010 km430 km
3.001.08.2026 03:5410 km477 km
3.101.08.2026 03:5110 km471 km
5.501.08.2026 02:4882.3 km971 km
3.231.07.2026 23:3810 km266 km
4.131.07.2026 22:0128.1 km915 km
3.031.07.2026 21:4810 km471 km
4.631.07.2026 12:5810 km965 km
3.431.07.2026 10:270 km463 km
3.731.07.2026 09:1010 km575 km
3.731.07.2026 07:5010 km443 km
3.731.07.2026 06:2810 km449 km
3.131.07.2026 04:0710 km457 km
3.531.07.2026 03:4010 km463 km
3.631.07.2026 02:40100 km504 km
3.330.07.2026 22:5010 km449 km
3.430.07.2026 19:5920 km1406 km
3.030.07.2026 19:510 km463 km

Regions

Tokyo20,195Okinawa Prefecture7,252Hokkaidō6,678Ibaraki Prefecture3,887Chiba Prefecture3,332Iwate Prefecture2,573Miyagi Prefecture2,261Fukushima Prefecture2,159Kagoshima Prefecture2,098Tochigi Prefecture1,283Niigata Prefecture1,252Saitama Prefecture1,225Miyazaki Prefecture1,124Gunma Prefecture1,124Nagano Prefecture1,097Ishikawa Prefecture1,064Shizuoka Prefecture1,020Aomori Prefecture942Kanagawa Prefecture822Kumamoto Prefecture732Mie Prefecture711Akita Prefecture685Gifu Prefecture638Ōita Prefecture612Yamagata Prefecture523Yamanashi Prefecture473Hyōgo Prefecture466Toyama Prefecture452Wakayama Prefecture434Ehime Prefecture404Kyōto Prefecture401Aichi Prefecture392Fukui Prefecture375Nara Prefecture347Ōsaka Prefecture335Fukuoka Prefecture306Kōchi Prefecture302Shiga Prefecture294Nagasaki Prefecture244Shimane Prefecture244Hiroshima Prefecture209Okayama Prefecture191Tottori Prefecture186Yamaguchi Prefecture183Tokushima Prefecture171Saga Prefecture157

Method and sources

What this page counts
An earthquake appears here when its epicentre is within a magnitude-dependent distance of this place's border: 15 km up to M4, 30 km to M5, 60 km to M6, 100 km to M7, and 150 km at M7 and above. The rule exists because a large earthquake concerns neighbouring provinces too — the 17 August 1999 epicentre was in the Gulf of İzmit, on no province's land at all.
Location precision
Epicentre uncertainty is typically 1–10 km, and larger for older records. That is why this site breaks data down to districts but not to neighbourhoods or villages — the data does not support that distinction.
Magnitude scales
The catalogues use more than twelve magnitude scales (Mw, ML, mb, Md…) and they are not equivalent. Values are shown on the scale the source reported; they are not converted.
Deduplication
The same earthquake is published by several catalogues. Records within 20 seconds and 100 km whose magnitudes differ by no more than 1.2 are treated as one event; the primary record is chosen by catalogue priority.
Updates
Recent earthquakes are fetched from four sources every five minutes. The historical archive is rebuilt infrequently.
Sources
USGS ComCat · ISC Bulletin · AFAD · Kandilli / KOERI · EMSC/CSEM
Reporting an error
If you spot a wrong record, write to us; we verify against the source and correct it.