par This Is Beirut, 01/01 10:58 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Central Japan experienced a series of powerful earthquakes, resulting in tsunami waves reaching over a meter high, prompting widespread evacuations, and reminiscent of the country's traumatic 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. The tsunami threat from a powerful earthquake that struck central Japan on Monday has “largely passed,” a US ...
par This Is Beirut, 02/01 12:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In Japan, rescuers urgently worked against time and aftershocks to locate survivors of a destructive 7.5-magnitude earthquake, resulting in at least 48 casualties. Japanese rescuers raced against the clock and powerful aftershocks on Tuesday to find survivors of a New Year's Day earthquake that claimed at least 48 lives and caused widespread ...
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Asia earthquake Taiwan This is Beirut tsunami
A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan on Wednesday and resulted in at least seven fatalities, nearly 60 injuries, extensive building damage and regional tsunami warnings, prompting response efforts and interruptions in various industries. At least seven people were killed and more than 700 injured on Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/08 15:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
earthquake Japan Tokyo Tsunamis
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 shook southern Japan on Thursday, but no major damage was reported, and only relatively minor tsunami waves lashed the coast. The quake hit at 4:42 PM (7:42 GMT) off Kyushu at a depth of 25 kilometers (16 miles), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The USGS had initially reported two ...
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earthquake Japan Kishida Natural disaster
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday cancelled a trip to Central Asia after earthquake scientists warned the country should prepare for a possible "megaquake." The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued the advisory on Thursday after eight people were injured by a tremor of magnitude 7.1 in the south. Kishida was due Friday to travel ...
par This Is Beirut, 13/08 00:19 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A 5.5 earthquake hit central Syria late Monday, with the shock felt in neighboring Lebanon, official media in both countries said. AFP journalists in Beirut and Damascus also said they felt the tremor. "An earthquake of 5.5 on the Richter scale struck east of Hama city at 11:56 pm," Syria's state-run SANA news agency said, quoting Raed Ahmed, ...
par This Is Beirut, 15/08 13:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
earthquake Japan tsunami Warning
Japan lifted on Thursday a warning that a "megaquake" potentially causing colossal damage and loss of life could strike, with the government telling people to "go back to normal." The week-old alert that such a catastrophe might hit the archipelago of 125 million people prompted thousands to cancel holidays and stock up on essentials, emptying ...
