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A strong earthquake rattled southern Japan on Monday, the United States Geological Survey is reporting. The quake registered a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, the USGS said, and was recorded about ...
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 ...
Sakurajima (Japanese: 桜島, lit. ' Cherry Blossom Island ' ) is an active stratovolcano , formerly an island and now a peninsula, in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu , Japan. [ 2 ] The lava flows of the 1914 eruption connected it with the Ōsumi Peninsula . [ 3 ]
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, the Liedu scale used in China or the European Macroseismic Scale (EMS), meaning that the scale measures the intensity of an earthquake at a given location instead of measuring the energy an earthquake ...
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.
Sakurajima volcano is seen from a shelter at a town in Kagoshima, southern island of Kyushu, Japan, one day after its eruption, Monday, July 25, 2022. The volcano spewed ash and large rocks into ...
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.
Another swarm of earthquakes shook the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea on Tuesday, including the popular tourist destination of Santorini, officially known as Thira.. A magnitude 5.3 earthquake ...