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Jan 3, 2024 · 5 min. TOKYO — A powerful earthquake struck western Japan on New Year’s Day, killing dozens of people, destroying homes and triggering fears of greater harm from aftershocks, tsunamis and ...
May 23, 2011 · Sarah Zielinski. May 23, 2011. A model of estimated fault slip for the March 2011 Japanese earthquake. Mark Simons/Caltech Seismological Laboratory. Scientists knew something was wrong with their ...
Anything above a shindo 5-lower is considered major, while anything below a 2 is minor. Japan averages roughly one or two major ( shindo 6 level) earthquakes per year, with damage suffered to varying degrees. Though earthquakes occur frequently in all areas of Japan, the Sanriku area (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi) and the prefectures along the Sea of ...
Feb 7, 2023 · The 7.8 magnitude quake struck 23 kilometers (14.2 miles) east of Nurdagi, in Turkey’s Gaziantep province, at a depth of 24.1 kilometers (14.9 miles), the United States Geological Survey (USGS ...
Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. Junko Furuta ( Japanese: 古田 順子, Hepburn: Furuta Junko, 18 January 1971 – 4 January 1989) was a 17-year-old Japanese high school student who was abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered. Her abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers, Hiroshi Miyano (18), Jō Ogura (17), Shinji Minato (16), and Yasushi ...
Mar 17, 2022 · The quake hit around 12:30 a.m. local time (11:30 a.m. ET) off the coast of Fukushima, north of the capital Tokyo. It was originally designated a 7.3-magnitude quake, but was upgraded to 7.4 on ...
The Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 on the JMA Seismic Intensity Scale (XI–XII on the Modified Mercalli ...
