The 2015 Ogasawara earthquake was a 7.8
magnitude earthquake which struck offshore
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
189 km (117 mi) west northwest of
Chichi-jima in the
Ogasawara Islands on May 30 at a depth of 664.0 km (412.6 mi).
The shaking of the earthquake was observed almost all over Japan,
as it was one of the largest
deep-focus earthquakes recorded worldwide.
Damage and casualties
The Associated Press agency reported "twelve people suffered minor injuries", and
TEPCO stated that 400 customers lost electricity in
Saitama Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2 (1,466 sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture ...
. There were no deaths, but
elevators stopped working in
Tokyo and elsewhere.
See also
*
List of earthquakes in 2015
*
List of earthquakes in Japan
References
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2015 earthquakes
May 2015 events in Japan
2015 Ogasawara earthquake