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January 13, 2025 at 7:12 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. ... Weather.com staff ...
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 ...
The massive earthquake reportedly killed at least 4 people, caused buildings to collapse and power to be knocked out. Multiple deaths reported following powerful earthquake in Japan Skip to main ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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The Japan Meteorological Agency stated it was an aftershock of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. [7] [8] An intensity of VII is strong enough to cause damage to unsupported buildings and move heavy furniture. [9] The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake increased stress on the normal fault along Honshu's eastern coast on which the 2016 earthquake occurred.