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January 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM A large earthquake shook Kyushu, Japan, just after 9 p.m. local time Monday night, triggering a tsunami advisory for Japan's southeast coast.
A strong earthquake rattled southern Japan on Monday, the United States Geological Survey is reporting. The quake registered a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, the USGS said, and was recorded about ...
TOKYO – A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook parts of southern Japan on Monday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake was reported about 7 miles to the east ...
Many in the public believed this earthquake could be related, but Professor Sakai Shinichi of the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute stated that the Kanagawa earthquake was not related to the Hyūga-nada earthquake or a possible Nankai megathrust earthquake. [14] On January 13, 2025, at 9:19pm JST, a 6.9 M JMA earthquake struck ...
The Japan News likewise reported that the video shows dashcam footage of shaking in Ishikawa, a prefecture in Japan, from the 7.5-magnitude Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year's Day 2024.
TOKYO — Japan issued a tsunami advisory Thursday after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern island of Kyushu. The temblor occurred off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture at 4:42 p.m ...
In Japan, the Shindo scale is commonly used to measure earthquakes by seismic intensity instead of magnitude. This is similar to the Modified Mercalli intensity scale used in the United States or the Liedu scale used in China, meaning that the scale measures the intensity of an earthquake at a given location instead of measuring the energy an earthquake releases at its epicenter (its magnitude ...
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). [7] It led to Japan's first major tsunami warning since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake , [ 8 ] and a tsunami of 7.45 m (24 ft) was measured along the Sea of ...