June 4, 1893 Earthquake: Kuril Islands, Russia
A magnitude 7 earthquake struck Kuril Islands, Russia on June 4, 1893 at 02:27:00 UTC. It caused a tsunami.
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Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- June 4, 1893
- Time
- 02:27:00 UTC
- Place
- Kuril Islands, Russia
- Magnitude
- 7
- Tsunami
- Yes: the tsunami it caused
- Epicenter
- 43.300° N, 147.500° E
- Country
- Russia
- Region
- Kamchatka and Kuril Islands
The toll
The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this earthquake.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
In the annual report of the Central Meteorological Observatory of Japan for 1893 it is reported that on June 4 at 2:27pm an earthquake was felt on Hokkaido in the Nemuro and Kushiro districts and on the southern Kurile Is.; it was especially strong on Shikotan. The area shaken amounted to approximately 125,000 km2; the magnitude of the quake as evaluated by the Japanese service was 6-½. The quake was accompanied by a tsunami, which at Shikotan reached 2-3 m. (reference #413)
Ref#79 magnitude 6.5
Ref#150 magnitude 7
Sources NCEI cites
The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.
- #79 Iida, Kumizi, Doak C. Cox, and George Pararas-Carayannis (1967). Preliminary Catalog of Tsunamis Occurring in the Pacific Ocean, HIG-67-10, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 275 p. Bibliography to the Preliminary Catalog of Tsunamis Occurring in the Pacific Ocean, December 1967, 27 p.
- #413 Soloviev, S.L., and M.D. Ferchev (1961). Summary of Data on Tsunamis in the USSR. Bulletin of the Council for Seismology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR [Byulleten Soveta po Seismologii Akademiya Nauk, SSSR], no. 9, 23-55, Moscow, USSR, 37 p.
- #150 Iida, Kumizi (1984). Catalog of tsunamis in Japan and its neighboring countries. Aichi Institute of Technology, Yachigusa, Yakusa-cho, Toyota-shi, 470-03, Japan, 52 p.
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- April 25, 1843, Yezo, Kushiro, Nemuro, Hokkaido, Japan
- June 17, 1973, Hokkaido Island, Japan
- October 4, 1994, Hokkaido, Kuril Islands, Japan, Russia
- March 22, 1894, Off Coast of Honshu, Japan
- October 25, 1881, Hokkaido Island, Japan
- February 12, 1961, Kuril Islands, Russia
- June 10, 1975, Hokkaido, Kuril-Japan, Russia
- August 11, 1969, Shikotan Island, Kurilskiye, Russia
- February 23, 1980, Kuril Islands, Russia
- September 27, 1974, Hokkaido, Kuril-Japan, Russia
- January 29, 1968, Kuril Islands, Russia
- June 26, 1973, Kuril Islands, Russia
- October 9, 1994, Kuril Islands, Russia
- September 11, 1935, Kuril Islands, Russia
- June 24, 1973, Kuril Islands, Russia
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 6219.