A strong, 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Japan on Monday ... categories are based on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale. When aftershock data is available, the ...
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake, measuring a lower 5 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale, struck southwestern Japan at 9:19 p.m. on Monday evening, according to the Meteorological Agency. The quake ...
TOKYO and LONDON -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said.
The agency said that on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7, the tremor had an intensity of lower 5. The earthquake occurred at around 9.19pm local time, ABC News reports. Japanese officials said the ...
Experts have cautioned that while small tremors help release some energy, they don’t eliminate the risk of a major quake.