Japan: Over 470 successive earthquakes have struck since Saturday

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More than 470 consecutive earthquakes person struck since Saturday successful a distant land clump successful confederate Japan, the National Weather Service said today, urging residents to beryllium vigilant.

No important harm has been reported pursuing this bid of earthquakes of astatine slightest 1 grade connected the seven-degree Japanese scale, which were lone somewhat felt by those wrong buildings.

The strongest earthquakes recorded since Saturday were 2 of 5.1 magnitude, 1 connected Sunday and the different connected Tuesday.

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said successful a connection that it had observed 474 earthquakes astir the Tokara land analyzable southbound of Kyushu, astatine the southwestern extremity of Japan.

“Seismic enactment has increased. Given that this country has experienced prolonged periods of seismic enactment successful the past, delight beryllium vigilant against beardown earthquake tremors,”the Japanese bureau noted.

In the past, the Tokara land analyzable portion has experienced a ample fig of earthquakes successful a abbreviated play of time, astir notably successful September 2023, erstwhile 346 earthquakes were recorded implicit a 15-day period, according to Japanese nationalist web NHK.

Of the 12 islands successful the Tokara complex, 7 are inhabited by astir 700 radical and immoderate of them, which person progressive volcanoes, are accessible by ferry doubly a week successful bully weather.

With its 125 cardinal people, Japan is located wherever 4 large tectonic plates meet, astatine the bosom of the “ring of fire” of the Pacific, making it 1 of the astir earthquake-prone countries successful the world.

The archipelago records astir 1,500 earthquakes a twelvemonth and accounts for astir 18% of the world’s earthquakes.

On January 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake, the strongest to deed the state successful implicit 10 years, struck the South Peninsula successful cardinal Japan. It claimed the lives of 470 people, including galore aged residents who died successful the days that followed.