{"id":339707,"date":"2025-12-12T04:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339707\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T04:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:53:11","slug":"magnitude-6-7-earthquake-hits-japans-northeast-tsunami-warning-issued-earthquakes-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339707\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Japan\u2019s northeast, tsunami warning issued | Earthquakes News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A tsunami warning has been issued following a strong quake off northeast coast of Japan.<\/p>\n

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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 has hit Japan\u2019s northeastern region, prompting a tsunami advisory from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).<\/p>\n

The earthquake struck on Friday off the coast of Aomori Prefecture at 11:44am local time (02:44 GMT) at a depth of 20km (12.4 miles), according to the JMA.<\/p>\n

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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) also said that the quake measured 6.7.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Nuclear Regulation Authority said there were no immediate signs of abnormalities at the region\u2019s nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n

National broadcaster NHK said that the level of shaking from the quake was less than a bigger magnitude 7.5 earthquake<\/a> that hit in the same region on Monday and tore apart roads, smashed windows and triggered tsunami waves of up to 70 centimetres (2.3ft).<\/p>\n

Following Monday\u2019s quake, which injured at least 50 people, the JMA issued a rare special advisory warning to residents across a wide area, from Hokkaido in the north to Chiba, east of Tokyo, to be on alert for an increased possibility of a powerful earthquake hitting again within a week.<\/p>\n

The northeast region is haunted by the memory of a massive magnitude 9.0 undersea quake in 2011, which triggered a tsunami that left about 18,500 people dead or missing.<\/p>\n

The JMA issued its first special advisory in 2024 for the southern half of Japan\u2019s Pacific coast, warning of a possible \u201cmegaquake\u201d along the Nankai Trough.<\/p>\n

The government has said that a quake in the Nankai Trough and subsequent tsunami could kill as many as 298,000 people and cause up to $2 trillion in damages.<\/p>\n

Amid fears of a \u201cmegaquake\u201d, NHK reported on Thursday that people in the northeast of Japan were stocking up on disaster-related goods such as torches, water storage tanks and support poles to prevent furniture from toppling over due to tremors.<\/p>\n

One shop in Hokkaido\u2019s Hakodate city reported sales of bottled water and disaster kits tripling following Monday\u2019s quake.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to prepare, so I bought disaster kits for everyone,\u201d a male customer in his 30s told NHK while visiting a shop with his family.<\/p>\n

Japan sits on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific \u201cRing of Fire\u201d and is one of the world\u2019s most seismically active countries.<\/p>\n

\"AA vehicle rests on the edge of a collapsed road in the town of Tohoku in Aomori Prefecture, on December 9, 2025, following a magnitude 7.5 earthquake off the coast of northern Japan [JIJI Press\/AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, A tsunami warning has been issued following a strong quake off northeast coast of Japan.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6109,9830,43,2454,44,41,39,42,40,26120],"class_list":["post-339707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-asia-pacific","tag-earthquakes","tag-headlines","tag-japan","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tsunami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}