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On January 1, the west coast of Japan was struck by a massive magnitude-7.6 earthquake near the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, the strongest quake to hit the area in over a century...
Rescuers in Japan continued their search to find survivors of a dangerous New Year's Day earthquake which has claimed over 80 lives...
This geological interaction was responsible for the country's largest recorded earthquake a magnitude-9.1 tremor that devastated the Tohoku region in 2011, unleashing a deadly tsunami...
Unlike the eastern quakes, the tremors in Ishikawa are caused by faults within the plate itself, which slip due to the built-up stress from the tectonic plates pushing against each other...
In response to the disaster, Japan's earthquake early-warning systems, significantly improved since the 2011 Tohoku event, promptly issued tsunami warnings and evacuation orders..
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