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2 January. Reuters. A powerful earthquake on New Year's Day 2024 toppled houses in central Japan. By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. Former BBC Tokyo correspondent. It's been nearly 13 years since the ...
Jan 1, 2024 · EPA. The earthquake, which took place on New Year's Day, has left a trail of destruction across Ishikawa Prefecture. The power of the magnitude 7.5 quake in Japan can be seen in just how much the ...
Jan 3, 2023 · Slow earthquakes are episodic slow fault slips. They form a fundamental component of interplate deformation processes, along with fast, regular earthquakes. Recent seismological and geodetic observations have revealed detailed slow earthquake activity along the Japan Trench—the subduction zone where the March 11, 2011, moment magnitude (Mw) 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake occurred. In this paper ...
Jan 25, 2023 · Understanding Japan’s earthquakes. New insight into the relationship between slow slip events and the build-up and release of tectonic strain. Towards better forecasts of future megathrust earthquakes. The Japanese archipelago is actively undergoing seismic shifts due to interactions between the oceanic plate and the continental plate.
Aug 13, 2024 · “About 10% of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or higher occur in or around Japan, so the risk is much higher than in places like Europe or the eastern United States, where earthquakes ...
Mar 9, 2012 · Compared with other large earthquakes in recent memory, the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake, as it became known, was different in many ways. The temblors off Chile in 2010 (magnitude 8.8) and Sumatra in 2004 (magnitude 9.1) involved faults that extended partly onto land, but the Tohoku earthquake occurred entirely beneath the ocean—nearly 5 ...
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Jan 2, 2024 · Japan's government lifted tsunami warnings for most of the country's west coast. They were the first such warnings since a magnitude 9 quake hit Japan's east coast in 2011, killing nearly 20,000 ...
