On 14 June, the 2008 Iwate earthquake struck the Tōhoku region of northeastern Honshū in Japan.

The largest ones (with Mj5.0 or greater) were From June 21 to July 1, four to 12 aftershocks were observed each day, with maximum seismic intensities of 3.

Landslides triggered by this earthquake crushed structures, buried people, cut off access to certain roads, and isolated some rural communities.

[12] By June 19, the Ministry of Land had identified fifteen quake lakes in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures,[13] and work crews began draining three of them which were at high risk of overflow or breach from rain or aftershocks.

Some water was found to have splashed out of a reaction container in the Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant possibly due to the tremor, but no radioactive material was released to the environment.