Today: 6.0 magnitude earthquake near Kokopo, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Yesterday: 6.0 magnitude earthquake near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamtsjatka, Russia

Recent Earthquakes Near Japan

Japan has had: (M1.5 or greater)

  • 2 earthquakes in the past 24 hours
  • 7 earthquakes in the past 7 days
  • 35 earthquakes in the past 30 days
  • 624 earthquakes in the past 365 days

The largest earthquake in Japan:

2025-09-16 03:18:27 UTC 4.4 magnitude, 10 km depth
Yamada, Iwate, Japan
2025-09-15 19:00:06 UTC 4.4 magnitude, 183 km depth
Kamo, Niigata, Japan
2025-09-15 04:34:46 UTC 4.4 magnitude, 62 km depth
Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
2025-09-14 18:41:52 UTC 4.1 magnitude, 152 km depth
Yonakuni, Okinawa, Japan
2025-09-13 04:46:16 UTC 4.6 magnitude, 39 km depth
Yonakuni, Okinawa, Japan
2025-09-12 15:57:45 UTC 4.8 magnitude, 39 km depth
Shikotan, Sakhalin, Russia
2025-09-09 20:56:17 UTC 4.7 magnitude, 35 km depth
Nishinoomote, Kagoshima, Japan
2025-09-08 23:53:02 UTC 4.4 magnitude, 78 km depth
Ichihara, Chiba, Japan
2025-09-08 14:04:15 UTC 4.5 magnitude, 46 km depth
Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan
2025-09-08 05:50:45 UTC 4.8 magnitude, 10 km depth
Yonakuni, Okinawa, Japan
2025-09-07 23:24:28 UTC 4.3 magnitude, 137 km depth
Suzaka, Nagano, Japan
2025-09-07 11:29:11 UTC 4.9 magnitude, 31 km depth
Yonakuni, Okinawa, Japan
2025-09-06 15:44:07 UTC 4.4 magnitude, 25 km depth
Hirara, Okinawa, Japan
2025-09-05 12:21:50 UTC 4.6 magnitude, 10 km depth
Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan
2025-09-05 12:00:11 UTC 4.5 magnitude, 69 km depth
Hanyū, Saitama, Japan
2025-09-04 10:23:57 UTC 4.5 magnitude, 34 km depth
Yamada, Iwate, Japan
2025-09-03 20:31:16 UTC 4.6 magnitude, 20 km depth
Naze, Kagoshima, Japan
2025-08-31 16:13:53 UTC 4.6 magnitude, 164 km depth
Ishikawa, Okinawa, Japan
2025-08-30 09:26:36 UTC 4.8 magnitude, 65 km depth
Yamada, Iwate, Japan
2025-08-29 16:51:00 UTC 5.0 magnitude, 44 km depth
Namie, Fukushima, Japan
2025-08-29 16:29:21 UTC 5.5 magnitude, 44 km depth
Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
2025-08-28 09:50:09 UTC 4.5 magnitude, 47 km depth
Nemuro, Hokkaido, Japan
2025-08-28 03:12:50 UTC 4.8 magnitude, 44 km depth
Nago, Okinawa, Japan
2025-08-27 13:10:59 UTC 5.3 magnitude, 116 km depth
Yilan, Taiwan, Taiwan
2025-08-27 12:50:01 UTC 4.4 magnitude, 50 km depth
Takanabe, Miyazaki, Japan
2025-08-26 22:20:46 UTC 4.0 magnitude, 364 km depth
Mikuni, Fukui, Japan
2025-08-26 10:56:34 UTC 4.4 magnitude, 22 km depth
Hualian, Taiwan, Taiwan
2025-08-21 23:06:17 UTC 4.5 magnitude, 67 km depth
Ōfunato, Iwate, Japan
2025-08-21 22:34:45 UTC 5.7 magnitude, 50 km depth
Ōfunato, Iwate, Japan
2025-08-21 01:44:00 UTC 4.7 magnitude, 10 km depth
Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan

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