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Okushiri had been struck by another tsunami 10 years earlier. A maximum run-up of 32 m was recorded on the western part of the island near Monai. A tsunami was widely observed in the Sea of Japan with a run-up of 3.5 m at Akita in northern Honshu, up to 4.0 m in southeastern Russia and up to 2.6 m on the coast of South Korea. [9]
On July 12, 1993, [2] the Southwest Hokkaido Open Sea earthquake (北海道南西沖地震) of magnitude 7.8 [2] in the Sea of Japan off southwest Hokkaido created a devastating tsunami. This tsunami killed 198 [ 2 ] people in the town, despite a tsunami warning system and a seawall, and also caused landslides on the hills above.
About 2,000 people killed along the west coast of Japan from the resulting tsunami. Homes and fishing boats destroyed in Korea. [15] Tsunami magnitude calculated at M t 8.4; largest tsunami in the region. [16] 1792 Shiribeshi: Earthquake (M 7.1) At least five people killed in Oshoro by the tsunami and additional tsunami casualties at Bikuni. [17]
The area accounts for 2.4% of prefectural land, down from more than 10% in the initial no-go zone. Ten years after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan’s northeastern coast ...
TOKYO – A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook parts of southern Japan on Monday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake was reported about 7 miles to the east ...
Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone places on earth. A massive quake in 2011 caused a tsunami that destroyed huge swaths of northern Japan and caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
The term Nemuro-Oki earthquake refers to large earthquakes that have struck near the Nemuro Peninsula on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan. Earthquakes here are of the megathrust type that occur along subduction zones when the Pacific plate dives beneath the Okhotsk Sea plate along the Kuril Trench, located off the east coast of Hokkaidō and Kuril Islands.
TOKYO — Japan issued a tsunami warning after a series of strong earthquakes struck the Sea of Japan on New Year’s Day.. Quakes occurred off the coast of Ishika and nearby prefectures after 4 p ...