A 01:25 JST a ranar 16 ga Afrilu (16:25 UTC, Afrilu 15), girgizar kasa mai karfin 7.0, a ƙarƙashin Higashi Ward na Kumamoto City a yankin Kyushu a kudu maso yammacin Japan, ya faru ne sakamakon lalacewar bugun-slip a cikin zurfin zurfin. An sami ƙarin lalacewa mai mahimmanci a waɗancan yankuna na gundumar Kumamoto da ke murmurewa daga girgizar ƙasa ta Afrilu 14, tare da girgizar ƙasa mai ƙarfi da lalacewa kuma an yi rikodin zuwa gabas har zuwa garin Beppu a cikin Ōita Prefecture. An kuma ji shi har zuwa Busan, Koriya ta Kudu, tare da ƙarfin MMI III. An ba da sanarwar tsunami a 01:27 JST don yankunan da ke Tekun Ariatsats da Tekun Yushiro, tare da tsinkayen tsinkayen tsinkayen ruwa a 0.2 zuwa 1 zuwa 3.3 m (0.7 zuwa 3.3 m), amma an ɗaga shi ƙasa da awa ɗaya daga baya a 02:14 JST. Aƙalla mutane 350,000 sun mutu kuma sama da mutane 9,000 sun ji rauni, yayin da 'yan sanda na gundumar Kumamoto sun shiga kira don
7.0 da kuma