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Japan’s Meteorological Agency warns major quakes could hit the area over the next week
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Monday afternoon, triggering a tsunami alert and prompting an official warning to residents to evacuate affected coastal areas as soon as possible.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) officially named this earthquake the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake (Japanese: 令和6年能登半島地震, Hepburn: Reiwa 6-nen Noto-hantō Jishin). [6] It led to Japan's first major tsunami warning since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, [7] and a tsunami of 7.45 m (24 ft) was measured along the Sea of Japan ...
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) initially issued a major tsunami warning - its first since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck northeast Japan killing nearly 20,000 people ...
The region experienced a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami with an estimated magnitude of 9 in 1667, [7] a magnitude 8.2 event in 1952, [8] a 1968 quake measuring 8.3 M w , and one in 2008 measuring 7.1, all bearing the name Tokachi-Oki, [8] and a 1973 quake to the immediate north along the Kuril Trench plate boundary called the 1973 Nemuro ...
The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. [ 40 ] [ 261 ] Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, "In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult ...
Japan is an extremely quake-prone nation, but a tsunami warning of the magnitude of Monday's had not been issued since a major quake and tsunami caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant in March 2011.
A tsunami advisory was issued after the earthquake. It covered Kōchi , Ehime , Oita , Miyazaki and Kagoshima Prefectures [ 15 ] and predicted waves of up to 1 m (3.3 ft). [ 16 ] Subsequently, tsunami waves of 50 cm (1.6 ft) were observed in Miyazaki, 30 cm (0.98 ft) in Kōchi , and 20 cm (0.66 ft) in Kagoshima . [ 15 ]