It struck on New Year's Day, lifting stretches of the Noto coast several metres and pushing the shoreline hundreds of metres out to sea.
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DownloadThe 2024 Noto earthquake struck on January 1, 2024, registering magnitude 7.5 (moment magnitude, Mw). Each whole step on the moment-magnitude scale is roughly 32 times more energy, so this released on the order of 178× the energy of a magnitude 6.0 earthquake.
Its epicenter was located near 37.49°N, 137.27°E, at a depth of about 10 km — a shallow crustal earthquake. Shallow earthquakes like this release their energy close to the surface, which is why the shaking near the epicenter was so violent.
An estimated 549 people were killed.