Japan Earthquake Today

6.9-magnitude earthquake hits Japan

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit northern Japan on Thursday morning, registering a rare upper 6 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 in the town of Hashikami, Aomori Prefecture. No tsunami warning has been issued. A mild quake was also felt in Tokyo.

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Powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake strikes off northern Japan. No tsunami warning

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6.9-magnitude earthquake hits Japan; tremors felt in Aomori

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5.6 magnitude earthquake rattles Northern California. What to know

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rattled parts of Northern California early Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

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Regional: Earthquake Alert System Pings Bay Area Residents For Quake In Far-Off Mendocino Co.

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Why did Sacramento residents receive an alert for the Northern California quake?

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Northern California shaken by moderate earthquake; USGS Shake Alert activated

Following the M5.6 earthquake near Willits, CA this morning, nearly 657,000 Earthquake Early Warning alerts were sent by the MyShake App.

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Powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake strikes off northern Japan, meteorological agency says

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5.6 earthquake strikes near Ukiah, triggers alerts across Northern California

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Major earthquakes hit Venezuela, Japan: Is the US coast under tsunami warning?

Strong earthquakes struck Japan and Venezuela, with the 7.1-magnitude Venezuela quake triggering a Caribbean tsunami warning, officials said.

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A seismic event bounced off Earth’s core and shifted an island country

Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward after the 2011 earthquake.

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Powerful seismic waves from Japan's 2011 earthquake struck Earth's core and bounced back up, moving the island eastward

In 2011, Japan reeled from the effects of a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake. But unnoticed in the chaos resulting from the quake, its major aftershocks and the tsunami it caused, something strange happened. About 16 minutes after the earthquake, but ...

Japan was shifted eastward by a few millimetres, researchers believe

Japan appears to have shifted further east in recent years. The 2011 earthquake in Japan that triggered a tsunami and the Fukushima reactor disaster moved the country east by up to 6 millimetres,