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4 days ago · At the Kumamoto earthquake-remembrance ceremony, participants observed a minute of silence and some laid flowers for the victims. JAPAN. Apr 14, 2024.
5 days ago · The last earthquake in Japan occurred 1 hour and 12 minutes ago and had a magnitude of 3.6: Mag. 3.6 earthquake Philippine Sea - Ehime , Japan - A moderate magnitude 3.6 earthquake occurred in the Philippine Sea near the coast of Ehime , Japan , late in the evening of Sunday, Apr 21, 2024 at 10.36 pm local time (GMT +9).
4 days ago · A video sharing old earthquake images in Japan has circulated online with a false claim they were taken after a 6.3-magnitude jolt hit the country on April 17. At least eight people were reported ...
3 days ago · A magnitude-5.4 offshore earthquake occurred near the Izu Islands at around 06:17 Oct. 9. The epicenter was about 552 km (342 miles) south of Shimoda, Japan. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles), and light shaking was probably felt in parts of the Izu and Ogasawara islands.
3 days ago · Taiwan's own earthquake monitoring center put the magnitudes of the initial quake at 6.3. Such small discrepancies are common between monitoring stations. The largest among them were two earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 and 6.3 that occurred at 2:26 a.m. and 2:32 a.m. Tuesday, respectively, according to the Taiwan center.
1 day ago · The Allies occupied Japan until 1952, during which a new constitution was enacted in 1947 that transformed Japan into the constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy it is today. After 1955, Japan enjoyed very high economic growth under the governance of the Liberal Democratic Party , and became a world economic powerhouse .
5 days ago · On Monday afternoon, the powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake rocked western Japan’s coastal prefectures of Ishikawa, Niigata, and Toyama, triggering tsunami alerts and several strong aftershocks. The quake struck about 42km (26 miles) northeast of Anamizu in Ishikawa prefecture. The area sits above the western-moving Eurasian and eastward ...
