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2004 Chūetsu earthquake
The 2004 Chūetsu earthquake, formally the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake, was a magnitude 6.8 quake that struck Niigata, Japan, on 23 October 2004, killing 68 people.
2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes (平成28年熊本地震) were a sequence of shallow inland earthquakes that struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Kyushu, Japan, beginning on April 14, 2016, and culminating in a magnitude 7.3 mainshock that killed 276 people.
Hakuhō earthquake
The Hakuhō earthquake (白鳳地震, also called the Tenmu earthquake) was a magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck Japan on 29 November 684, the oldest recorded great earthquake along the Nankai Trough.