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Japan’s Meteorological Agency warns major quakes could hit the area over the next week Japan earthquake – latest: Aftershocks continue in quake zone as death toll rises to 64 Skip to main content
Earthquakes early Monday again struck Japan's north-central region of Ishikawa, still recovering from the destruction left by a powerful quake on Jan. 1, but the latest shaking caused no major damage.
Following the earthquake, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a 'Nankai Trough Earthquake Extra Information' advisory [23] that the probability of a megathrust earthquake along the Nankai Trough increased from a 0.1% per week to 1% chance [24] in what was the first advisory of its kind but clarified that it was not imminent.
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.
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.
The earthquake had a magnitude of M ww 6.2, M w 6.3 or M JMA 6.5 according to the United States Geological Survey, GCMT and Japan Meteorological Agency respectively. [5] It struck at 14:42 JST at a depth of 10 kilometers.
The earthquake [62]) was a powerful magnitude 6.6 earthquake [63] [64] that occurred 10:13 a.m. local time (01:13 UTC) on July 16, 2007, in the northwest Niigata region of Japan. [63] Eleven deaths and at least 1,000 injuries have been reported, and 342 buildings were completely destroyed, mostly older wooden structures.
A man was pulled out 72 hours after a series of powerful quakes started rattling Japan’s western coast. The death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 Saturday, as rescue ...