November 28, 2004 Earthquake: Bekkai, Kushiro, Nemouro, Hokkaido, Japan
A magnitude 7 earthquake struck Bekkai, Kushiro, Nemouro, Hokkaido, Japan on November 28, 2004 at 18:32:14 UTC, 39 km below the surface. 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
- November 28, 2004
- Time
- 18:32:14 UTC
- Place
- Bekkai, Kushiro, Nemouro, Hokkaido, Japan
- Magnitude
- 7 (Mw)
- Focal depth
- 39 km (24 mi)
- Tsunami
- Yes: the tsunami it caused
- Epicenter
- 43.006° N, 145.119° E
- Country
- Japan
The toll
- Injuries
- 24
- Damage
- Limited (under about $1 million)
- Houses damaged
- Few (about 1 to 50)
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
At least 24 people injured; road damage occurred; power, natural gas and railway service interrupted in the Bekkai-Kushiro-Nemuro area. Minor damage to docks and buildings at
Nemuro. A 10 cm tsunami was recorded at Nemuro. Felt
at Misawa, Honshu. Felt (IV) at Yuzhno-Kuril'sk,
Kunashir and (III) on Shikotan and at Kuril'sk,
Iturup. Recorded (5U JMA) in eastern Hokkaido, (4 JMA)
in south-central Hokkaido, (3 JMA) in southwestern
Hokkaido and (1 JMA) in northern Hokkaido. Also
recorded (3 JMA) in Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi; (2 JMA)
in Akita, Ibaraki and Yamagata; (1 JMA) in Fukushima,
Kanagawa, Saitama, Shizuoka, Tochigi and Tokyo
Prefectures, Honshu. (Reference #1053)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- April 25, 1843, Yezo, Kushiro, Nemuro, Hokkaido, Japan
- March 4, 1952, Hokkaido, Japan
- June 17, 1973, Hokkaido Island, Japan
- October 4, 1994, Hokkaido, Kuril Islands, Japan, Russia
- January 15, 1993, Hokkadio, Kushiro, Hachinohe, Honshu, Japan
- September 25, 2003, Hokkaido, Japan
- March 22, 1894, Off Coast of Honshu, Japan
- May 28, 1938, E. Hokkaido Island, Japan
- December 6, 2004, Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan
- August 11, 1961, SE. Hokkaido Island, Japan
- May 1, 1839, SE. Hokkaido Island, Japan
- November 15, 1961, SE. Hokkaido Island, Japan
- June 13, 1893, Nemuro, Japan
- December 25, 1900, Kuril Islands, Russia
- March 18, 1904, Hokkaido, Japan
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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 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 5818.