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Historic Earthquake
1919 Japan Earthquake
3 May 1919 · Off East Coast of Honshu · Japan
On 3 May 1919 at 00:52 UTC, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Japan (Off East Coast of Honshu), at a depth of 60 km. It occurred on the Pacific Plate, 86 km from its boundary with the Okhotsk Plate (subduction zone).
- Date
- 3 May 1919
- Time
- 00:52 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.6
- Depth
- 60 km
- Plate
- Pacific Plate
- Country
- Japan
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Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth