OBSERVED · EARTHQUAKE · USGS US7000TWG9

Magnitude 6.1, 144 km SE of Hasaki, Japan.

Occurred 7 hours ago (2026-11-06 10:39 UTC). Record reviewed, last revised 2 hours ago. Fetched just now. Every number on this page comes from the USGS feed; the sentence is a template over those fields.

Magnitude 6.1 earthquake, 29 km deep, at 6 Nov 10:39 UTC, with 30 felt reports submitted. USGS places it "144 km SE of Hasaki, Japan".

OBSERVED · USGS · M 6.1 · 2026-11-06 10:39 UTC

DERIVED. The last earthquake at least this strong within 100 km was magnitude 6.2 on 23 Sep 2016 ("142 km ESE of Katsuura, Japan"). USGS ComCat search: earthquakes within 100 km of this epicentre, magnitude 6.1 or more, from 1 Jan 1900 to just before this one, newest first. Magnitudes of different types are compared as the catalogue publishes them.

ESTIMATE · USGS PAGER · GREEN. The USGS's own estimate of likely fatalities and economic losses for this earthquake, from its PAGER model. ESTIMATE: the source's own model estimate, not a count. PAGER at the USGS

Epicentre at 34.968, 142.118 (USGS). The dashed ring is 100 km. Coastlines from Natural Earth (public domain), drawn from the coordinate; nothing placed by hand.

OBSERVED · USGS event us7000twg9 · reviewed · origin 2026-11-06 10:39 UTC · record updated 2026-11-06 15:39 UTC · 34.968, 142.118 · depth 29.0 km · significance 585 · 30 felt reports submittedOccurred 7 hours ago · record revised 2 hours ago · fetched 2026-11-06 18:04 UTC. The evidence class is OBSERVED because the USGS reports it happened; how recent the event or the revision is changes nothing about that. Felt reports are the “Did You Feel It?” reports people sent the USGS, not a count of who felt it. Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program (public domain). This page is regenerated from the USGS event id and is not stored by yank.

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