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The most recent similar-sized comparable to the 2021 quake was the 6.9 M w 2016 Fukushima earthquake, which occurred just southwest of where the February 2021 earthquake struck. That earthquake was the result of normal faulting within the overriding Okhotsk Sea Plate at a depth of 9 km (5.6 mi). [22]
Following the earthquake, a tsunami advisory was issued at 18:11 JST for Miyagi Prefecture for waves of up to 1 meter (3 ft 3 in). [26] Despite the warnings, no tsunamis were observed; this is because the earthquake had ruptured a deeper portion of the subduction zone. [21] [27] The tsunami advisory was then withdrawn at around 19:30 JST. [28]
A motorcyclist captured the moment the power went out around Chofu City as a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan late on March 16.According to the US Geological Survey ...
A large earthquake shook Kyushu, Japan, just after 9 p.m. local time Monday night, triggering a tsunami advisory for Japan's southeast coast. The quake was centered just offshore of Kyushu, about ...
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 ...
Japan issued a Tsunami warning after a series of strong earthquakes struck the Sea of Japan on New Year's Day. ... A video posted to X showed a train ... Collapsed houses after an earthquake in ...
A powerful earthquake measuring magnitude 7.1 struck southwestern Japan on Thursday, triggering tsunami warnings for a number of the country’s western islands and causing mostly minor injuries ...
The 2021 Kermadec Islands earthquake damaged some buildings and caused landslides on Raoul Island, [122] it also triggered a tsunami warning for New Zealand. [123] Tsunami heights have been around 35–40 cm (14–16 in) at East Cape and around 15–20 cm (5.9–7.9 in) at Great Barrier Island ; 64 cm (25 in) waves were reported in Norfolk ...