The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes (Japanese: 熊本地震 (2016年) Hepburn: Kumamoto jishin 2016-nen) are a series of earthquakes,[2] including a mainshock which occurred at magnitude 7.0 at 01:25 JST[a] on April 16, 2016, beneath Kumamoto City of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu Region, Japan, at a depth of about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi),[11] and a foreshock earthquake which preceded it with a magnitude 6.2 at 21:26 JST[b] on April 14, 2016, at a depth of about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi).[4]