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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan issued an evacuation advisory for the coastal areas near the southern prefecture of Okinawa after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami warning. A tsunami of up to 3 ...
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.
By 8am today, nearly 130 requests ... Terrifying moment Japan earthquake leaves car passengers petrified. 07:45, Maroosha Muzaffar. Japan experienced more than 400 tremors until Wednesday morning.
TOKYO — Japan was struck by a series of powerful earthquakes on New Year's Day that killed at least 48 people, reduced hundreds of buildings to rubble, and forced tens of thousands to flee to ...
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.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for Okinawa Prefecture and as waves of 3 m (9.8 ft) were expected, [37] which was later downgraded to a "tsunami advisory". [38] A 30 cm (12 in) wave was observed at Yonaguni about 15 minutes after the earthquake.
A large earthquake shook Kyushu, Japan, just after 9 p.m. local time Monday night, triggering a tsunami advisory for Japan's southeast coast. The quake was centered just offshore of Kyushu, about ...
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 ...