M4.4 earthquake 105 km E of Miyako, Japan
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 105 km E of Miyako, Japan on Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 8:27 AM JST (23:27 UTC), 19 km (12 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.1 78 km NNE of Miyako, Japan. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.4 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-12-25 23:27:21 UTC
- Depth
- 19.4 km (12.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 39.773° N, 143.164° E
- Region
- Japan
- Felt reports
- 1
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
Felt at Utsunomiya.
From the USGS event page for us10007mrp. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
Did you feel it?
1 person 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 normal
- Moment magnitude
- 4.4 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 138°, dip 45°, rake -147°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 23°, dip 67°, rake -50°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 7.8 km horizontally, 5.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.09
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 164°
- Stations used
- 49
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 9 in the 60 days after this one and 5 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.667 km NNE of Miyako, Japan · 3547 days ago · 54 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.3189 km ENE of Miyako, Japan · 3547 days ago · 23 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.3134 km NE of Miyako, Japan · 3539 days ago · 36 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.7129 km NE of Miyako, Japan · 3539 days ago · 25 km deep · 67 km away
- 5.178 km NNE of Miyako, Japan · 3537 days ago · 42 km deep · 81 km away · felt by 7
- 4.668 km ESE of Hachinohe, Japan · 3535 days ago · 51 km deep · 95 km away · felt by 2
- 4.273 km NNE of Miyako, Japan · 3528 days ago · 57 km deep · 85 km away
- 5.070 km NNE of Miyako, Japan · 3520 days ago · 44 km deep · 88 km away · felt by 9
- 4.1141 km E of Yamada, Japan · 3517 days ago · 18 km deep · 52 km away
Before
- 5.070 km NNE of Miyako, Japan · 3584 days ago · 52 km deep · 80 km away · felt by 3
- 4.9187 km ENE of Miyako, Japan · 3590 days ago · 19 km deep · 89 km away · felt by 1
- 4.4131 km ESE of Yamada, Japan · 3591 days ago · 19 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.48 km NE of Miyako, Japan · 3595 days ago · 56 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.5109 km E of Miyako, Japan · 3596 days ago · 22 km deep · 6 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10007mrp. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 1:49 PM UTC.