Today: 6.1 magnitude earthquake near Port-Vila, Shefa, Vanuatu

Biggest Earthquakes Near Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia

2011-03-11 05:46:24 UTC 9.0 magnitude, 29 km depth
Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan

1940-08-01 15:08:25 UTC 7.5 magnitude, 15 km depth
Rishiri Town, Hokkaido, Japan

2002-06-28 17:19:30 UTC 7.3 magnitude, 566 km depth
Dongning, Heilongjiang Sheng, China

1993-07-12 13:17:11 UTC 7.7 magnitude, 16 km depth
Iwanai, Hokkaido, Japan

1939-04-21 04:29:07 UTC 7.0 magnitude, 530 km depth
Sovetskaya Gavan’, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia

1971-09-05 18:35:30 UTC 7.3 magnitude, 18 km depth
Gornozavodsk, Sakhalin, Russia

1999-04-08 13:10:34 UTC 7.1 magnitude, 565 km depth
Wangqing, Jilin Sheng, China

1990-05-12 04:50:08 UTC 7.2 magnitude, 605 km depth
Uglegorsk, Sakhalin, Russia

1950-02-28 10:21:00 UTC 7.7 magnitude, 329 km depth
Korsakov, Sakhalin, Russia

2003-07-27 06:25:31 UTC 6.8 magnitude, 470 km depth
Svetlaya, Primorskiy, Russia

1946-01-11 01:33:31 UTC 6.8 magnitude, 581 km depth
Chaihe, Heilongjiang Sheng, China

1987-05-07 03:05:49 UTC 6.8 magnitude, 430 km depth
Svetlaya, Primorskiy, Russia

1994-07-21 18:36:31 UTC 7.3 magnitude, 471 km depth
Vrangel’, Primorskiy, Russia

1957-01-03 12:48:29 UTC 6.9 magnitude, 581 km depth
Dongning, Heilongjiang Sheng, China

1963-06-21 13:44:27 UTC 5.9 magnitude, 35 km depth
Fengxiang, Heilongjiang Sheng, China

2012-08-14 02:59:38 UTC 7.7 magnitude, 583 km depth
Poronaysk, Sakhalin, Russia

2007-04-22 10:04:00 UTC 4.6 magnitude, 10 km depth
Smidovich, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia

1990-07-17 03:37:27 UTC 4.6 magnitude, 33 km depth
Londoko, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia

1970-08-29 14:59:21 UTC 5.6 magnitude, 15 km depth
Berëzovyy, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia

2005-03-23 02:13:05 UTC 4.1 magnitude, 10 km depth
Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia