Powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off of Japan and Russia
Powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off of Japan and Russia
- Underwater earthquake happened 100 miles below the ocean’s surface
- There have been no reports or serious damage and no danger of a tsunami
- Local news channel showed video monitors and shelves shaking at its office
A huge earthquake hit Japan’s northern coast today, but there were no reports of serious damage or injuries and no danger of a tsunami, officials have said.
The 7.0-magnitude quake hit offshore, 62 miles southeast of Russia‘s Kuril Islands, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
The underwater earthquake happened 100 miles below the ocean’s surface.
The 7.0-magnitude quake hit offshore, 62 miles southeast of Russia ‘s Kuril Islands, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said
NHK public television showed video monitors and shelves shaking at its office in Kushiro on the southeastern coast of Hokkaido.
Hokkaido prefectural police said they had received no reports of damage or injuries.
Officials said the quake was unlikely to cause any because of its depth and distance from the coast.
Japan was rattled by a 5.2-magnitude earthquake off the country’s east coast yesterday
Japan was hit by two another two earthquakes yesterday of lesser magnitudes, the first being of 4.4 magnitude which struck just minutes before in Hokkaido’s Iburi region.
And the second was of 5.5 magnitude that hit off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture.
Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at Imperial College in London, tweeted about the earthquake: ‘M6.9 earthquake just now beneath the Kuril Islands (between Hokkaido & Kamchatka).
‘Depth of 150 km and normal faulting mechanism -> intra-slab ‘bending’ event in subducted Pacific plate (slab top is at ~100km).
‘Deep hypocentre so will have been felt widely across northern Japan.’
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