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Historic Earthquake
March 2021 Miyagi Earthquake
20 March 2021 · Honshu Island · Japan
On 20 March 2021 at 09:09 UTC, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Japan (Honshu Island), at a depth of 43 km. It occurred on the Okhotsk Plate, 213 km from its boundary with the Pacific Plate (subduction zone).
- Date
- 20 March 2021
- Time
- 09:09 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.0
- Depth
- 43 km
- Maximum Intensity
- VII (Mercalli)
- Injuries
- 11
- Estimated Damage
- 550 million US dollars
- Plate
- Okhotsk Plate
- Country
- Japan
- Nearest Volcano
- Naruko (85 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 20112011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami · M 9.118,423 deaths
- 20112011 Northern Nagano Earthquake · M 7.9
- 19941994 Offshore Sanriku Earthquake · M 7.83 deaths
- 19681968 Tokachi Earthquake · M 8.252 deaths
- 19331933 Sanriku Earthquake · M 8.43,022 deaths
- 1915Near E Coast Honshu · M 7.8
- 19011901 Aomori-ken Toho-oki Earthquake · M 8.218 deaths
- 19011901 Aomori-ken Toho-oki Earthquake · M 7.9
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth