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Asia

Several aftershocks hit Kumamoto prefecture, Japan

  • By TN
  • April 18, 2016
Tsunami debris is piled up inside the Nakano Elementary School in Sendai, Japan, April 6, 2011. Japan Self-Defense Force officers surveyed schools in the region during Operation Tomodachi. Operation Tomodachi was the name chosen by the Japanese government for the joint humanitarian assistance operation that took place in response to the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck northeastern Japan March 11, 2011
Tsunami debris is piled up inside the Nakano Elementary School in Sendai, Japan, April 6, 2011. Japan Self-Defense Force officers surveyed schools in the region during Operation Tomodachi. Operation Tomodachi was the name chosen by the Japanese government for the joint humanitarian assistance operation that took place in response to the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck northeastern Japan March 11, 2011. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Patricia D. Lockhart/Released)

Several aftershocks, one of which measured a magnitude of 5.3 on the USGS scale, have hit Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. It comes just days after two [Read More…]

Asia

At Least Nine Dead, 760 Hospitalized After Magnitude 6.5 Quake Hits Japan

  • By TN
  • April 15, 2016
110315-N-2653B-144 OFUNATO, Japan (March 15, 2011) Vehicles and debris line a canal in the downtown area of Ofunato, Japan, following a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Matthew M. Bradley/Released)

At least nine people were killed in Japan when a 6.5-magnitude earthquake occurred near the city of Kumamoto in the south of the country, Japan’s [Read More…]