M5.0 earthquake 54 km SE of ?funato, Japan
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck 54 km SE of ?funato, Japan on Thu, Nov 10, 2016, 7:20 AM JST (22:20 UTC), 48 km (30 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M6.1 24 km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.0 (Mww, W-phase moment), moderate
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-11-09 22:20:41 UTC
- Depth
- 48.2 km (30.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 38.726° N, 142.162° E
- Region
- Japan
- Felt reports
- 2
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Magnitude estimates
Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.
| Mag. | Scale | Computed by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | Mww, W-phase moment | USGS National Earthquake Information Center | Preferred · Reviewed |
| 5.04 | Mw, moment | ISC-GEM global catalog | Final · ±0.1 |
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
Felt at Sendai and Tomiya. Recorded (2 JMA) in Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi.
From the USGS event page for us100076kd. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
Did you feel it?
2 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Oblique reverse
- Moment magnitude
- 5.0 Mww
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 65°, dip 72°, rake 137°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 171°, dip 49°, rake 23°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 6.3 km horizontally, 6.5 km in depth
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 93°
- Stations used
- 280
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 2.0 and up: 8 in the 60 days after this one and 1 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 6.124 km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan · 3613 days ago · 42 km deep · 58 km away · felt by 79
- 4.438 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan · 3588 days ago · 56 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.287 km SE of Ishinomaki, Japan · 3587 days ago · 35 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.539 km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan · 3586 days ago · 57 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.369 km SE of ?funato, Japan · 3564 days ago · 47 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.694 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan · 3561 days ago · 35 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.486 km SE of ?funato, Japan · 3560 days ago · 35 km deep · 33 km away · felt by 1
- 4.670 km SE of ?funato, Japan · 3558 days ago · 31 km deep · 17 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us100076kd (also filed as iscgem615024410). Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 2:02 PM UTC.