Uploaded on May 8, 2023

"Strong Ground Motions" was added on May 22, 2023

Event Event time: 2023-05-05 14:42:04.1 (JST, JMA), 2023-05-05 05:42:04.3 (UTC, USGS) Location: 37.538°N, 137.303°E (JMA), 37.540°N, 137.305°E (USGS) Depth: 12 km (JMA), 8.7 km (USGS) Magnitude: Mj6.5 (JMA), Mww6.2 (USGS)

Information in our site

• Noto Peninsula Tsunami on May 5, 2023
• Strong Ground Motions (Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture earthquake on May 5, 2023) [in English]

Direct links

• M 6.2 - near the west coast of Honshu, Japan

Related institutions

• United States Geological Survey (USGS), USA
• Seismic Monitor, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)

The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT, Wessel and Smith, Eos, 79, 579, 1998) was used to make the figure of the epicenter, which is from JMA (https://www.data.jma.go.jp/eqev/data/daily_map/20230505.html). The land topography and ocean bathymetry are from GEBCO Compilation Group (2020, GEBCO 2020 Grid, doi:10.5285/a29c5465-b138-234d-e053-6c86abc040b9).

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