Japan is highly earthquake-prone due to its location on the “Ring of Fire”, where intense seismic and volcanic activity occurs. “Japan sits on the boundaries of four tectonic plates, which makes it ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake ... and likely to make plates in cupboards rattle.

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There have been no reports of damage linked to the tremor that happened on Monday, Jan. 13 A 6.9-magnitude earthquake ... by a part of the boundary between the land plate and the Philippine ...

A tsunami warning has been issued for a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Hyuga-Nada Sea off the coast of Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The earthquake in Japan was a magnitude of 6.7, according to CBS News. It was initially measured as a 6.9, but Japan’s meteorological agency decreased it after re-examining the event.

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