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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 first-generation Aqua was produced by the Iwate plant since before the establishment of Toyota Motor East Japan. [25] In September 2022, the third-generation Sienta started to roll off at Miyagi. [26] In June 2023, Toyota Motor East Japan said it would start assembling the Lexus LBX at the Iwate plant, the company's first Lexus-badged
Record rainfall has brought deadly flooding and landslides to a coastal region of Japan still recovering from a devastating New Year’s Day earthquake. Japan’s weather agency issued its highest ...
The Lexus LBX (Japanese: レクサス・LBX, Hepburn: Rekusasu LBX) is a subcompact luxury crossover SUV marketed by Lexus, a luxury division of Toyota. Primarily developed for Europe and Japan, [ 6 ] it was introduced in June 2023 in Milan , Italy as the smallest crossover model in Lexus' lineup, slotting below the C-segment UX .
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 ...
A powerful earthquake that hit Japan on New Year's Day killed at least 55 people, with rescue teams struggling in freezing temperatures on Tuesday to reach coastal areas where many are feared ...
Japan accounts for about one-fifth of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater. On March 11, 2011, the northeast coast was struck by a magnitude 9 earthquake, the strongest in Japan on ...
Following the earthquake, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a 'Nankai Trough Earthquake Extra Information' advisory [28] that the probability of a megathrust earthquake along the Nankai Trough increased from a 0.1% per week to 1% chance [29] in what was the first advisory of its kind but clarified that it was not imminent.