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2016 Kumamoto earthquakes

2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
Image: Hajime NAKANO on flickr · CC BY 2.0 · source

The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes were a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 mainshock which struck at 01:25 JST on April 16, 2016 beneath Kumamoto City of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu Region, Japan, at a depth of about 10 kilometres, and a foreshock earthquake with a magnitude 6.2 at 21:26 JST (12:26 UTC)…

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  1. 2015 Illapel earthquakeSeptember 16, 2015
  2. April 2015 Nepal earthquakeApril 25, 2015
  3. 2016 Ecuador earthquakeApril 16, 2016
  4. 2016 Kaohsiung earthquakeFebruary 6, 2016
  5. 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes (this page)April 2016
  6. August 2016 Central Italy earthquakeAugust 24, 2016

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