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  2. Natural disasters in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The most devastating recorded natural disaster to affect Japan by death toll was the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which killed ~105,000 and a further ~6,000 due to the Kantō Massacre in its immediate aftermath. Japan has also been the site of some of the 10 worst natural disasters of the 21st century.

  3. Why Japan issued its first-ever 'megaquake advisory' — and ...

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    The Summary. Japan’s meteorological agency on Thursday issued its first-ever “megaquake advisory.” The warning followed a 7.1-magnitude earthquake off the country’s southern coast.

  4. Earthquake Early Warning (Japan) - Wikipedia

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    The JMA announced the Earthquake Early Warning hit (accuracy) rate for the 2011 fiscal year on 31 May 2012. The hit rate is the percentage of warnings issued immediately on the detection of P-waves with a Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale (震度, shindo) number (0 to 7) within one shindo number of the measured earthquake.

  5. 2024 Noto earthquake - Wikipedia

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    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). [6] It led to Japan's first major tsunami warning since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake , [ 7 ] and a tsunami of 7.45 m (24 ft) was measured along the Sea of ...

  6. Japan’s experience with earthquakes can help teach us to ...

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    Japan took a fresh approach to ensuring their society was more resilient to the frequent earthquakes they experience. We could learn from its experience. Japan’s experience with earthquakes can ...

  7. What causes earthquakes? The science behind why seismic ... - AOL

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    In January, the USGS estimated that nearly 75% of the U.S. could experience a damaging earthquake in the next century. The prediction is based on research done by dozens of scientists and ...

  8. List of earthquakes in Japan - Wikipedia

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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 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 ...

  9. Factbox-Major earthquakes in Japan since Kobe disaster ... - AOL

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    Situated on the "Ring of Fire" arc of volcanoes and oceanic trenches that partly encircles the Pacific Basin, Japan accounts for about 20% of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater, and ...