Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake - Eastern Honshu, Japan on Saturday, 22 November 2014
Fuerte terremoto magnitud 6.2 - 8.1 km SSW of Hakuba, Kitaazumi Gun, Nagano, Japan, sábado, 22 nov. 2014
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Strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake at 12 km depth
22 Nov 13:17 UTC: Primero en informar: GFZ después de 9 minutos.
Profundidad recalculada de 10.0 a 12.0 km.
Profundidad recalculada de 10.0 a 12.0 km.
Magnitud: 6.2
Profundidad: 12.0 km
Epicentro latitud / longitud: 36.63°N / 137.83°E

Volcán mas cercano: Myoko (34 km / 21 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
8 km al SSO de Hakuba (Kitaazumi District) (pop: 9,250) --> ¡Vea sismos cercanos!
15 km al NNO de Ōmachi (Omachi) (pop: 30,600) --> ¡Vea sismos cercanos!
32 km al O de Nagano (pop: 360,200) --> ¡Vea sismos cercanos!
33 km al N de Hotaka (pop: 33,200) --> ¡Vea sismos cercanos!
37 km al N de Toyoshina (pop: 27,800) --> ¡Vea sismos cercanos!
43 km al ESE de Uozu (Toyama) (pop: 45,800) --> ¡Vea sismos cercanos!
46 km al NNO de Matsumoto (pop: 210,700) --> ¡Vea sismos cercanos!
48 km al ONO de Ueda (pop: 126,600) --> ¡Vea sismos cercanos!
172 km al NO de Hachiōji (Tokyo) (pop: 579,400) --> ¡Vea sismos cercanos!
197 km al ONO de Tokio (Tokyo) (pop: 8,336,600) --> ¡Vea sismos cercanos!
Fuente primaria de datos: GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
Energía liberada estimada: 1.3 x 1014 joules (35 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 30089 tons of TNT or 1.9 atomic bombs!) More info
Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies
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Magnitud | Profundidad | Ubicación | Fuente |
M 6.2 | 12 km | Eastern Honshu, Japan | GFZ |
M 6.2 | 2 km | EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN | EMSC |
M 6.2 | 10 km | 16km NNE of Omachi, Japan | USGS |
M 6.2 | 10 km | NNE of Omachi, Japan | GeoAu |
User reports for this quake (14)
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Chuo, Tokyo / Weak shaking (MMI III)
Shobu-ike, Nagakute City / Light shaking (MMI IV)
Lower beeding (9447.3 km NNW of epicenter) [Map] / not felt
Yokohama / Light shaking (MMI IV)
´Nagoya City (183.2 km SSW of epicenter) [Map] / Very weak shaking (MMI II)
Termez / Usbekistan / Weak shaking (MMI III)
rimini / Moderate shaking (MMI V)
rimini / Moderate shaking (MMI V)
Imizu shi / not felt
ogasawara / Strong shaking (MMI VI)
HND Airport ANA Lounge / Light shaking (MMI IV)
Nisshin-shi (182.1 km SSW of epicenter) [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV) : Seemed a bit longer than the usual earthquake.
hon-atsugi / Very weak shaking (MMI II)
Ueda-shi (Japan, 48 km SE of epicenter) : Very strong quake for about 30 seconds. Some books and plates fell from the shelves. Hope there are no replicas - it was pretty scary. (reported through EMSC)
Aftershocks of the M 6.2 terremoto: 8.1 km al sur de Hakuba, Kitaazumi Gun, Prefectura de Nagano, Japón Sat, 22 Nov 2014 13:08
More info
Recorded aftershocks, latest first (5 quakes):- 23 Mar 2015 16:06 UTC| M 4.3 |12 km (7.5 mi) depth|24 km (15 mi) distance| EMSC | Details
- 18 Mar 2015 19:06 UTC| M 4.5 |258 km (160.3 mi) depth|60 km (37 mi) distance| EMSC | Details
- 01 Mar 2015 19:21 UTC| M 4.8 |244 km (151.6 mi) depth|25 km (16 mi) distance| GFZ | Details
- 21 Dec 2014 16:17 UTC| M 4.6 |21 km (13 mi) depth|18 km (11 mi) distance| EMSC | Details
- 23 Nov 2014 03:46 UTC| M 4.3 |10 km (6.2 mi) depth|9 km (6 mi) distance| USGS | Details
Earlier earthquakes in the same area
Fuerte terremoto magnitud 6.2 - 8.1 km SSW of Hakuba, Kitaazumi Gun, Nagano, Japan, sábado, 22 nov. 2014Click here to search our database for earlier earthquakes in the same area since 1900!