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5 days ago · A tsunami warning is shown on TV in Yokohama, near Tokyo Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. Japan issued tsunami alerts Monday after a series of strong quakes in the Sea of Japan.
5 days ago · This was the first time the JMA issued a tsunami warning for the coastal areas of Okinawa prefecture since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The tsunami warning was issued after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake jolted the sea area near Hualien of China's Taiwan earlier in the day.
20 hours ago · The strongest earthquake in Japan in the past 48 hours had a magnitude of 4.2 and occurred 1 day 2 hours ago: Mag. 4.2 earthquake North Pacific Ocean - Miyagi-ken , Japan - A moderate magnitude 4.2 earthquake occurred in the North Pacific Ocean near the coast of Miyagi-ken , Japan , in the early morning of Monday, May 13, 2024 at 1.37 am local ...
1 day ago · This is a not 24/7 live stream of earthquakes in Japan.Monitoring Japan EarthquakesEarthquakes can be random, and can happen at any time. I am using 3 progra...
12 hours ago · The Pacific plate is subducted into the mantle, south of Japan, beneath the Izu-Bonin and Mariana island arcs, which extend more than 3,000 km along the eastern margin of the Philippine Sea plate. This subduction zone is characterized by rapid plate convergence and high-level seismicity extending to depths of over 600 km.
5 days ago · The biggest in the swarm was a magnitude-7.5 earthquake on New Year’s Day of this year. More than 240 deaths were linked to this mainshock event, according to the Japanese Red Cross Society .
1 day ago · Its name is derived from the fact that the earthquake occurred along the Cascadia Subduction zone. On average, the earthquake slipped 66 feet (20 meters) across a 620-mile (1,000-kilometer) fault line rupture. It also resulted in a tsunami thousands of miles away off the coast of Japan, with waves reaching up to 8 feet (2.5 meters) tall.
