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Jan 1, 2024 · Japan issued a Tsunami warning after a series of strong earthquakes struck the Sea of Japan on New Year's Day. ... Tsunami warnings had been issued in the wake of the quakes in Ishikawa as well as ...
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- Arata Yamamoto,Larissa Gao,Corky Siemaszko
Casualties. 227,898 dead [5] [6] On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time ( UTC+7 ), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 Mw struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, [8] [9] was caused by a ...
Jan 1, 2024 · But the country is haunted by the memory of a massive 9.0-magnitude undersea quake off northeastern Japan in March 2011, which triggered a tsunami that left around 18,500 people dead or missing.
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- Agence France-Presse
Mar 11, 2011 · By Larry Greenemeier. The Sciences. The massive magnitude 8.9 earthquake that struck near the east coast of Honshu, Japan's main island, at 2:46 P.M. local time and unleashed a fierce tsunami ...
Mar 14, 2011 · The massive magnitude 8.9 earthquake that struck off the east coast Japan’s main island on March 11, 2011 set in motion a fierce tsunami that may have claimed thousands of lives, and sent ...
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- By Nancy Atkinson
May 28, 2015 · Overall, such a quake would cause some $200 billion in damage, 50,000 injuries and 2,000 deaths, the researchers estimated. But “it’s not so much about dying in the earthquake.
Jan 1, 2024 · Japan is an extremely quake-prone nation. In March 2011, a major quake and tsunami caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant . The latest warning was the first time since the 2011 disaster that a ...
