Strong earthquake of 7.1 magnitude strikes near Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan; four injured
"'Extreme confusion and disorder'? The quake threw dishes from shelves in houses in the region, but there were no immediate reports of damage. Retrieved March 16, 2020 — via Newspapers. 0625rem rotate -135deg ;transform:translateY 0. 0 M w 41 平成28年（2016年）熊本地震 Heisei-28-nen 2016-nen Kumamoto jishin , depth 10. , archived from on 10 July 2011• There are no reported abnormalities at the power plants in the area. The Taisho Emperor and Empress Teimei were on holiday in the mountains, and so escaped the disaster. To this day, boulders reportedly launched by the tsunami called "tsunami stones" remain in the northwestern highlands of. 375rem;font-family:"Guardian Text Sans Web","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;background-color:rgba 255,255,255,0. This article appears to contain references to. 8 degrees east longitude , in the Maruyama River estuary. on June 28, 1948 the then Japan Daylight Saving Time; JDT. No buildings in Fukushima reportedly sustained major damage. Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, expressed sympathy for those who had suffered damage and injuries. 125rem solid currentColor;border-top:0;border-left:0;content:'';display:inline-block;height:0. According to the Japanese government's official report, there were 428 human fatalities, 1,016 people injured, 7,863 buildings destroyed, and 45,659 houses damaged by collapse or fire. It hit at 11:08 p. 3, raising it from a preliminary magnitude of 7. Often people bolt furniture, like bookcases, to the wall so it won't topple onto someone during an earthquake. Kawasumi, H. An explanation is the decline of waste disposal, which became particularly serious in the northern and western districts when traditional methods of waste disposal collapsed due to urbanization. 2 M L 1,083 鳥取地震 Tottori Jishin offshore from December 7, 1944 8. He said there were no irregularities at two nuclear facilities, Fukushima Dai-ni and Onagawa. 25rem ;background-repeat:repeat-x;background-position:bottom;background-size:0. "Voices of vulnerability and resilience: children and their recollections in post-earthquake Tokyo. This event also marked the last eruption of Mount Fuji to date. were massacred after the earthquake, as the result of the Red Terror. Metropolitan Police Department burning at , near In response, the government called upon the and the police to protect Koreans; 23,715 Koreans were placed in across Japan, 12,000 in Tokyo alone. Eleven deaths and at least 1,000 injuries have been reported, and 342 buildings were completely destroyed, mostly older wooden structures. 6875rem;font-family:"Guardian Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:normal;font-weight:700;color: fff;padding-bottom:1. 3 earthquake struck Saturday off the coast of which was home to one of the world's worst nuclear disasters almost a decade ago. Ishibashi, K. 75rem;background-color: fff;border-radius:0. Heck of a strong quake off the coast of Fukushima; magnitude 7. CS1 maint: archived copy as title• As a precaution, residents close to coastal areas have been advised to move to higher ground. 0-magnitude earthquake struck late on Saturday night. In several documented cases, soldiers and policemen participated in the killings, and in other cases authorities handed groups of Koreans over to local vigilantes, who proceeded to kill them. Faster responsiveness Thanks to your past donations, these features have been added recently:• Mikiso Hane, Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988, p. "We got a glimpse of what could happen next, when a natural disaster happens," Professor Fuse said. 7 mi northwest of at the mouth of Fukuoka Harbor This earthquake struck , at 10:53:40 on March 20 and lasted for approximately 50 seconds. Kokushi Daijiten in Japanese. Residents cleaned up clutter in stores and homes on Sunday morning and workers rushed to clear debris from a landslide which has blocked a section of the Joban Expressway in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture. Over 570,000 homes were destroyed, leaving an estimated 1. The epicentre of the earthquake was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture• External links [ ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to. [ ] The importance of obtaining and providing accurate information following natural disasters has been emphasized in Japan ever since. Power had been restored by early Sunday, although some bullet train services were still halted. Memorial service for foreigners who died at the earthquake: The woman burning incense is the wife of the Italian Ambassador to Japan. Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato addressed reporters after midnight and said evaluations were under way. Many homes were buried or swept away by in the mountainous and hilly coastal areas in western ; about 800 people died. Tsunami alerts• The earthquake struck at 10:53 PM IST at a depth of 59 km from the surface. A monument commemorating this was built in 1993 in Wenzhou. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, Abstract T31G-03. University of California, Berkeley. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga headed into his office immediately after reports of the quake, where a crisis center has been set up. 01:13 on July 16, 2007, in the northwest of Japan. " The Volcano Discovery website reported the earthquake has occurred near where the devastating Tohoku earthquake struck in March 2011. Archived from on August 10, 2007. There were no reports of major injuries. The Volcano Discovery website said: "It is interesting to note that today's quake occurred in almost the same location as the catastrophic Tohoku earthquake from 11 March 2011. 21,000 houses were damaged and 3,400 burned, and an additional 44,000 homes were damaged by the landslides in the area. Archived from on 29 September 2015. The chief of police of or by some accounts is reported to have publicly drunk the well water to disprove the rumor that Koreans had been poisoning wells. The cause was a rupture of part of the where the is beneath the along the line of the. 姜徳相『新版 関東大震災・虐殺の記憶』 青丘文化社• Images shown online and posted on social media showed broken glass at a shop and items spilled off the shelves at a supermarket. The earth shakes so much people may be thrown through the air. Kyodo news agency reported at least four people injured in the quake, but gave no further details. 375rem 0;margin:0;box-shadow:0 0 0 0. , Naval History and Heritage Command, U. Ichiro Matsuo, a visiting professor from the University of Tokyo, is known as a 'disaster master' in Japan, and is renowned for his expertise on disaster preparations. Reuters: Asahi Shimbun Insurance company Swiss Re ranks the metropolitan area of Tokyo-Yokohama as "by far its most earthquake-threatened" area, with 30 million people potentially affected. Aria's birth mother is severely injured by debris and later dies, and this triggers a subplot about Aria's own heritage. 2004 ; "" 30 pages ; Earthquake catalogue 47 2—3 ; Collections: 04. in flames A with waves up to 10 m 33 ft high struck the coast of , , , and the east coast of within minutes. 首都直下のM7クラスの地震及び相模トラフ沿いのM8クラスの地震等の震源断層モデルと震度分布・津波高等に関する報告書• 25rem solid currentColor;left:0. Authorities were still checking at Fukushima Dai-ichi, he said. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7. — Photographs by August Kengelbacher• A tsunami soon followed, leaving more than 15,000 people dead and 2,500 others still missing. 1875rem rotate 45deg ;transition:-webkit-transform 250ms ease-out;transition:transform 250ms ease-out;transition:transform 250ms ease-out, -webkit-transform 250ms ease-out;vertical-align:middle;width:0. Our explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. A view of the destruction in Following the devastation of the earthquake, some in the government considered the possibility of moving the capital elsewhere. Harlan, Chico 9 July 2011 , , The Washington Post, Washington, D. 6 km 189 km 117 mi WNW of , Japan April 14, 2016 21:26:39 6. 1 km depth 33km WSW of February 13, 2021 23:07 7. Renowned author Yu Miri, who lives in Fukushima's Minamisoma city, tweeted a photo of her home, showing books, pot plants and bookcases strewn across the floor. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the epicentre of the earthquake was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture with a depth of 60km 36 miles. Additional seismic data sources• Lee, Eun-gyong January 2015. Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato told a separate news conference earlier in Tokyo that almost 850,000 households had been left without power in areas surrounding Tokyo and northern Japan. 125rem;left:0;position:absolute;width:1. 1 M w 0 Off the east coast of Honshu 福島県沖地震 Fukushima-ken oki jishin , 35. We need financing to increase hard- and software capacity as well as support our editor team. In the hours and days following, and racist rhetoric took hold across Japan. The March 2011 quake triggered a tsunami that may have reached 40 metres high in some areas. such as [] 平澤計七 , such as and , and the Chinese communal leader, [] 王希天 , were abducted and killed by local police and Imperial Army, who claimed the radicals intended to use the crisis as an opportunity to overthrow the Japanese government. 8 M L 428 1925 Kita Tajima earthquake 北但馬地震 Kita Tajima Jishin in This earthquake's epicenter was 35. Occurred on December 20, 1946 at 19:19 UTC. 375rem solid transparent;border-right:0. 272 deaths were confirmed to have occurred in the Kinosaki area. 0625rem solid 506991;padding-top:0. I throw off the covers, my wife grabs our son and we duck under a table. 375rem;font-family:"Guardian Text Sans Web","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-weight:700;background-color: ffe500;border-radius:1. 8 M s 104 日本海中部地震 Nihonkai-chubu jishin off coast 50 miles 80 kilometers from Rising up to 30 feet 10 meters above the coastline, the tsunami created by this earthquake was observed throughout a wide area along the Sea of Japan's coast and caused damage from to. Scawthorn; Eidinger; Schiff, eds. Archived from PDF on 22 July 2011. Cultural Effects The Great Kanto Earthquake triggered another horrifying result. 04:23 and resulted in a warning but did not cause significant damage. Check123 - Video encyclopedia. If there is a shortage of medical staff, there is a possibility that about 6,000 people among the 20,000 will die because of lack of treatment. Every year on this date, schools across Japan take a moment of silence at the precise time the earthquake hit in memory of the lives lost. 'We will continue to respond, putting human lives first,' Suga told reporters early Sunday, adding there were no reports of serious injuries. 38 pm IST at a depth of 60 kilometres 37 miles in the Pacific, off Fukushima —near the epicentre of a 2011 killer quake which triggered a towering tsunami and killed more than 18,000. The numerous fires and cloudy well water, a little-known effect of a large quake, all seemed to confirm the rumors of the panic-stricken survivors who were living amidst the rubble. 'My house in Odaka, Minamisoma city is all messed up,' she wrote. ship commenced to tremble and vibrate violently and on looking towards the shore it was seen that a terrible earthquake was taking place, buildings were collapsing in all directions and in a few minutes nothing could be seen for clouds of dust. Army and police personnel colluded in the vigilante killings in some areas. 6 M w 569 Offshore This earthquake was felt with low intensity, but generated a large tsunami that killed 569 people. Department of the Navy, 2002• Archived from on 10 December 2014. Memory [ ] Beginning in 1960, every September 1 is designated as Disaster Prevention Day to commemorate the earthquake and remind people of the importance of preparedness, as August and September are the peak of the typhoon season. Some discreet memorials are located in in , at the site of the open space in which an estimated 38,000 people were killed by a single. The death toll could further spiral in the days after a significant disaster. Only 300 of the people gathered there survived. The earthquake was felt from Northern to. 4375rem solid transparent;border-right:0. Benio barely survives when the Christian church she's getting married in collapses, and then she finds her long-lost love Shinobu whose other love interest Larissa is among the victims; they get back together, and Tousei allows them to. 125rem;-webkit-transform:translateY -0. History [ ] Although there is mention of an earthquake in in what is now on August 23, 416, the first to be reliably documented took place in Nara prefecture on May 28, 599 during the reign of , destroying buildings throughout. Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films. 3 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Japan sparking fears of a 'leak' at nuclear power plant• Wright's structure withstood the anticipated earthquake stresses, and the hotel remained in use until 1968. The Government tells people to keep enough food, water and essential items to survive for up to a week before help can arrive. Although both were devastated, the city of Yokohama was hit even worse than Tokyo. 375rem;position:fixed;right:0;transition:-webkit-transform 0. Japan is vulnerable to tsunamis along its coastline. Choongkong Oh Director 1983. Choongkong Oh Director 1986. Design upgrades• Parks were placed all over Tokyo as refuge spots, and public buildings were constructed with stricter standards than private buildings to accommodate refugees. The outbreak of World War II and subsequent destruction severely limited resources. These winds caused fires to spread rapidly. More than 140,000 people were killed. The country sits on the Pacific 'Ring of Fire', an arc of intense seismic activity that stretches through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. The unfinished was in drydock being converted into an in in compliance with the of 1922. The and were staying at when the earthquake struck Tokyo, and were never in any danger. 0625rem solid 506991;border-bottom:0;border-top:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0 1. It was the deadliest earthquake in Japanese history. 625rem;position:absolute;top:0;width:8. important;background-position-x:2. 6 M L 3,020 北丹後地震 Kita Tango Jishin in Almost all of the houses in Mineyama now part of were destroyed, and the quake was felt as far away as and. Contents• The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Statistics and Restoration Progress. Suddenly, at full volume, every phone in the house begins blaring a heart-jolting siren. "There have been no anomalies reported from any of the nuclear facilities," Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told a press conference. 125rem solid 333;border-top:0;border-right:0;position:absolute;top:0. Mount Fuji has not erupted since 1707, but it is still considered an active volcano. 0625rem solid 506991;border-bottom:0;position:absolute;bottom:0;left:0;right:0;height:2. A Japanese government panel has said any major eruption of Mount Fuji would rain so much ash on the capital, Tokyo, that its transportation network of trains and highways would grind to a halt and power plants would shut down. For context, nearly 16,000 deaths and more than 6,000 injuries were recorded, following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, with a further 2,500 people being reported missing. groups set up roadblocks in cities, and tested residents with a for supposedly Korean-accented Japanese: deporting, beating, or killing those who failed. Just before the shaking could be felt, a sound like a cannon was reportedly heard intermittently from the direction of the estuary near the Maruyama River. 0625rem solid ededed;display:block;top:0;margin:-0. For him, another nightmare scenario would be a Shindo 7 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Nankai Trough on the country's south coast. 1 M w 4 aftershock 宮城県沖地震 Miyagi-ken Oki Jishin , depth 49 km. Susumu Yamaga「日本列島の地震・津波・噴火の歴史」pp. Ethnic Koreans were massacred after the earthquake. In the long run, the response to the disaster was a strong sense that Japan had been given an unparalleled opportunity to rebuild the city, and to rebuild Japanese values. March 11 marks the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. The Hashou's mansion is destroyed, leading to an emotional confrontation between Akiko and Saionji; meanwhile, Sara's humble house in the suburbia is also destroyed and her and Junichirou's mother dies of injuries she sustained in the earthquake. 9 M K occurred at 天平地震 Tenbyou jishin Some references describe the quake as occurring on June 9 July 13, 869 G July 9, 869 J 8. In the 2017 josei manga by , the heroine Suzuno Osugi enters The Universe of the Four Gods for the first time right after the earthquake: her father Takao, who is dying from injuries he suffered when the family house fatally collapsed on him and Suzuno's mother Tamayo, orders her to do so, so she will survive the disaster and its aftermath. "Surveys are being done at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant," he said. There were 1,559 human fatalities, and 2,666 injured people in the affected area. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a statement: "An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude 7. This is similar to the used in the United States or the used in China, meaning that the scale measures the intensity of an earthquake at a given location instead of measuring the energy an earthquake releases at its epicenter its magnitude as the Richter scale does. In the wood-built cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, upended cooking fires and broken gas mains set off firestorms that raced through homes and offices. 6 M w 26 新潟地震 Niigata Jishin 50 km north of The earthquake caused widespread in the city of Niigata, resulting in unusually high levels of damage to buildings for the felt intensity. , Higai, JP, archived from on 2007-08-22. 0625rem solid 506991;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;height:1. Independent reports said the number of dead was far higher, ranging from 6,000 to 10,000. 'We have received reports that Onagawa nuclear plant and Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant are not showing any abnormality,' he added. 6 MS and triggered a large tsunami. Historical seismology; Annals of Geophysics, accessed 2011-03-19• Archived from PDF on 2011-07-22. Estimated casualties totaled about 142,800 deaths, including about 40,000 who went missing and were presumed dead. There were 726 human fatalities and 8,403 people injured in the damaged area. local time 1408 GMT and shook houses and offices in Tokyo, and was followed by aftershocks, including a 4. Archived from on November 9, 2001. 125rem rotate 45deg ;border:0. NHK also said there were no reports of irregularities at another nuclear facility at Tokaimura, in Ibaraki prefecture. Japan's meteorological agency said the quake hit at 11. Mainichi, The Osaka September 15, 1923. 0625rem rotate -135deg ;transform:translateY -0. 8125rem;background-color: ffffff;content:'';display:block;height:0. Last March, TEPCO installed two seismographs at the Number 3 Reactor building. In , in one scene in the book, due to the fast-moving subduction of the Pacific and Eurasian plates, the Sagami Trough ruptures in a magnitude-8. 3 struck off the coast of eastern Japan on Saturday, sparking fears of a 'leak' at a nuclear power plant. 8 M w 0 Izu Islands, Japan 鳥島近海地震 Torishima-kinkai Jishin , depth 348. The quake's magnitude is estimated at 7. 375rem;font-family:"Guardian Text Sans Web","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;color: fff;font-weight:400;line-height:1. 7 M w 3 三陸はるか沖地震 Sanriku-haruka-oki Jishin January 17, 1995 7. Physical Effects The total death toll from the earthquake and its aftereffects is estimated at about 142,800. The incident is also referred to with the phrase ' erupted, Higo affected' 岛原大変肥后迷惑 , as many people in Higo, , located 20 km away across the were also killed by the resulting tsunami, which then bounced back to hit Shimabara again.。 。
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