Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Report

1. Earthquake Mj6.5 earthquake event hit Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, at 21:26, April 14th (local time: GMT+09), 2016. Second Mj7.3 earthquake event hit Kumamoto and Oita prefectures at 01:46, April 16th (local time: GMT+09). The epicenters were estimated in about 10km distance, and the hypocenter depths were 11km and 12km, respectively [1,2]. Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) […]

GSJ Event Page

Event Page: https://www.gsj.jp/hazards/earthquake/kumamoto2016/index.html (Japanese; can be translated to English using Google Translate extension in web browser) A simplified English translation of the Event Page is available here: 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes and related information