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April 2: 2024 Hualien earthquake: Listed are earthquakes with at least 10 dead. By magnitude ... Japan, Ishikawa, 8 km (5.0 mi) southwest of Anamizu: 6.2 10.0
April 17, 2024 at 11:49 AM. TOKYO (Reuters) -An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 hit southern Japan late on Wednesday, said the Japan Meteorological Agency, without issuing a tsunami ...
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 ...
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 Japan ...
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
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 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes (Japanese: 平成28年熊本地震, Hepburn: Heisei 28-nen Kumamoto jishin) were a series of earthquakes, [2] including a magnitude 7.0 mainshock which struck at 01:25 JST on April 16, 2016 (16:25 UTC on April 15) beneath Kumamoto City of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu Region, Japan, at a depth of about 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), [8] and a foreshock earthquake with ...
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Monday afternoon, triggering a tsunami alert and prompting an official warning to residents to evacuate affected coastal areas as soon as possible.