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Monday, a reporting station at Obihiro, Hokkaido, measured 47.24 inches of snowfall in just 12 hours. That more than doubled the station's previous 12-hour snowfall record in 26 years of data ...
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 ...
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.
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 push of frigid air triggered days' worth of record-setting snowfall that buried portions of Japan and caused scores of travel disruptions along the way. Snow first began late last week as Arctic ...
On January 13, 2025, at 9:19pm JST, a 6.9 M JMA earthquake struck less than 10 km (6.2 mi) away from the August 8, 2024 earthquake at a depth of 30 km (19 mi), causing tremors recorded as a 5- on the JMA seismic intensity scale [15] and an observed 20cm tsunami in Miyazaki Prefecture.
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 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.