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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 ...
Japan issued a Tsunami warning after a series of strong earthquakes struck the Sea of ... the quakes hit off the Ishikawa coast a little after 4 p.m. local time (2 a.m. ET), with one reaching a ...
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan's Miyazaki prefecture on August 8, 2024 ... in a news release. A tsunami warning was issued after the quake. ... a 9.0-magnitude ...
TOKYO — Japan issued a tsunami advisory Thursday after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern island of Kyushu. The temblor occurred off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture at 4:42 p.m ...
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.
Japan is an extremely quake-prone nation, but a tsunami warning of the magnitude of Monday's had not been issued since a major quake and tsunami caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant in March 2011.
Japan has a nationwide Tsunami Warning system (Japanese: 大津波警報・津波警報・津波注意報).The system usually issues warnings a few minutes after an Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) is issued, should waves be expected, [1] [2] usually when a combination of high magnitude, seaward epicenter and vertical focal mechanism is observed.
Map of Tsunami Warnings issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency at 1 January 2024 16:22 JST. Large parts of Japan's western coast, from Hokkaido to Nagasaki Prefectures were immediately placed under a tsunami warning after the earthquake struck, with evacuation orders issued in Ishikawa, Niigata, Toyama, and Yamagata prefectures.