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An earthquake measuring M6.9 rocked Miyazaki, Japan, Monday (13/1/2025) night. A tsunami caution used to be issued after the earthquake. Photograph/dimsumdaily
BMKG Director of Earthquake and Tsunami, Daryono, mentioned that the epicenter of the earthquake used to be situated at coordinates 31.78 N and 131.54 E, exactly 309 km southwest of Hiroshima, Japan with a hypocenter intensity of 40 km.
“The Miyazaki earthquake is one of those shallow earthquake caused via Nankai Subduction task. This earthquake has a thrust fault mechanism,” mentioned Daryono in his reputable observation.
Daryono additionally showed that from the result of the BMKG research, the Eastern earthquake didn’t have the possible to purpose a tsunami in Indonesian territory.
“Subsequently, coastal communities in Indonesia are urged to stay calm,” he appealed.
In the meantime, the Japan Meteorological Company has issued a tsunami caution after an earthquake measuring 6.9 at the Richter scale took place off the coast of southwest Japan. The quake struck in a while after 9:19 p.m. native time (7:19 a.m. ET), the company mentioned, triggering warnings for Miyazaki province, at the island of Kyushu, in addition to Kochi prefecture in southern Japan.
Government have suggested native citizens no longer to go into the ocean or manner the coast till the caution is lifted, the rustic’s meteorological company mentioned in X.
“Tsunami might happen many times. Please don’t input the ocean or manner coastal spaces,” the company instructed X.
In the meantime, an earthquake measuring 6.8 at the Richter scale struck southwestern Japan on Monday night, in line with the United States Geological Survey, prompting government to factor a tsunami caution. The USGS revised its estimate down from 6.9, including that “there’s no tsunami risk from this earthquake.”
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