M5.5 Earthquake Strikes Near Hamakita, Japan

The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck near Hamakita, a district of Hamamatsu in Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture, at 1:04 a.m. local time on Nov. 8, 2026 (4:04 p.m. UTC Nov. 7, 2026). The agency put the epicenter 10 kilometers northwest of Hamakita at a depth of 38 kilometers.

USGS's shaking-intensity map put the strongest shaking it modeled from the quake at intensity V, or moderate, across a zone with a population of about 1,380,000 people. Fifty-eight people in the area filed online reports with USGS saying they had felt the shaking.