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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, the Liedu scale used in China or the European Macroseismic Scale (EMS), meaning that the scale measures the intensity of an earthquake at a given location instead of measuring the energy an earthquake ...
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: Japan: 9.1 $360 billion [210] [211] 2 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake: Japan: 6.9 $200 billion [212] 3 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes: Turkey Syria: 7.8 $163.6 billion [213] [214] 4 2008 Sichuan earthquake: China 7.9 $150 billion [215] 5 2011 Christchurch earthquake: New Zealand 6.3 $40 billion [216] 6 2004 ...
1293 Kamakura earthquake; 1361 Shōhei earthquake; 1454 Kyōtoku earthquake and tsunami; 1586 Tenshō earthquake; 1741 eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami; 1751 Takada earthquake; 1833 Shōnai earthquake; 1910 Taiwan earthquake; 1940 Shakotan earthquake; 1958 Kuril Islands earthquake; 1987 Chiba earthquake; 2014 Nagano earthquake ...
A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan left at least 62 people dead Wednesday, as rescue workers fought to save those feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
A powerful earthquake struck central Japan on Monday, killing at least six people, destroying buildings and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes. Situated on the "Ring of Fire" arc of ...
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 ...
Meanwhile, major earthquakes such as the 1994 offshore Sanriku earthquake and the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake revealed issues like wide variability in damage in areas with intensities 5 and 6, as well as delays in determining intensity 7 (which required field surveys by the JMA’s mobile observation team). These issues highlighted the need ...
The Japan Meteorological Agency reported more than a dozen strong quakes in the Japan Sea off the coast of Ishikawa and nearby prefectures starting shortly after 4 p.m. local time.