14 November 2005, Mw 7.0, Off East Coast of Honshu, Japan

A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 (HRV) occurred at 2138 UTC 14 November, 2005 off the east coast of Honshu, Japan (38.09ºN 144.9ºE) (Figure 1). The earthquake was widely felt in northern and eastern Honshu and Hokkaido. There were no reports of major damage.A local tsunami was generated with a wave height of 42 cm at Ofunato City. Smaller wave heights were recorded along at other locations along the coast of Honshu.