On 1 January 2024, at 16:10 JST (07:10 UTC), a 7.6 earthquake struck 6 km (3.7 mi) north-northeast of Suzu.

There were 526 deaths confirmed and two people remain missing. Over 500 fatalities occurred in Ishikawa, five in Niigata and three more in Toyama. The mainshock also injured over 1,300 people and damaged 178,270 structures across nine prefectures. Of these, 228 deaths were directly attributed to the earthquake, and the other 298 were disaster-related deaths aggravated by fear of aftershocks, electricity and water outages and evacuations to temporary shelters and other locations. It was the deadliest earthquake in Japan since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

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