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Jan 1, 2024 · The quake, which is estimated to have been magnitude 7.6, struck the Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture on the main central island of Honshu at about 4.10pm local time (07.10 GMT).
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The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) officially named this earthquake the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake (Japanese: 令和6年能登半島地震, Hepburn: Reiwa 6-nen Noto-hantō Jishin). It led to Japan's first major tsunami warning since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake , [6] and a tsunami of 6.58 m (22 ft) was measured along the Sea of Japan coast.
Mar 16, 2022 · TOKYO — A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, triggering a tsunami advisory and plunging more than 2 million homes in the ...
Feb 25, 2022 · More than 5,000 aftershocks hit Japan in the year after the earthquake, the largest a magnitude 7.9. About 250 miles (400 km) of Japan's northern Honshu coastline dropped by 2 feet (0.6 meters ...
The earthquake hit at 5:46 am on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1995, in the southern part of Hyōgo prefecture, west-central Honshu. It lasted about 20 seconds and registered as a magnitude 6.9 (7.3 on the Richter scale). Its epicentre was the northern part of Awaji Island in the Inland Sea, 12.5 miles (20 km) off the coast of the port city of Kōbe; the ...
Scenes of devastation emerged Tuesday, one day after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake shook western Japan, killing dozens of people. CBS New York's Vanessa Murdock...
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Mar 11, 2012 · In the early afternoon of 11 March 2011, Japan was rocked by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake that caused widespread damage to the country’s eastern coastal region. The earthquake was so powerful it moved Honshu, Japan’s largest island, 2.4 metres east and shifted the Earth on its axis by an estimated 10 to 25 centimetres. The tsunami that ...
