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Map of Tsunami Warnings issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency at 1 January 2024 16:22 JST. Large parts of Japan's western coast, from Hokkaido to Nagasaki Prefectures were immediately placed under a tsunami warning after the earthquake struck, with evacuation orders issued in Ishikawa, Niigata, Toyama, and Yamagata prefectures.
A tsunami advisory was issued after the earthquake. It covered Kōchi, Ehime, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima Prefectures [14] and predicted waves of up to 3.3 feet. [15] Tsunami waves measuring 50 cm (1.6 ft) were subsequently observed in Miyazaki, while waves measuring 20 cm (0.66 ft) were observed in Kōchi. [14] The advisories were lifted at ...
google maps. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan's Miyazaki prefecture on August 8, 2024
5.0–5.9. 732. 4.0–4.9. 6,451. ← 2023. This is a list of earthquakes in 2024. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in significant damage and/or casualties. All dates are listed according to UTC time. The maximum intensities are based on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
August 8, 2024 at 4:29 AM Google Maps TOKYO — Japan issued a tsunami advisory Thursday after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern island of Kyushu.
“It requires an 8.7 to get a tsunami all the way to Japan,” Tobin said. The people who recorded the incident in Japan couldn’t have known that the ground had shaken an ocean away, in the ...
6 June – Seven workers are injured following an explosion at a shipyard in Nishinari-ku, Osaka. [ 63] 7 June – Four buildings are destroyed in a fire in Yokohama Chinatown. [ 64] 8 June – Kadokawa Corporation and the video-streaming platform Niconico suffer a ransomware cyberattack by a hacker group called BlackSuit.
A tsunami warning signboard at Gesashi Bay Mangrove Forest, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. A tsunami warning was issued on 14 January in Tonga after an eruption was observed. Volcanic activity decreased following that eruption and the warning was lifted in the early morning of 15 January.