The quake hit on Monday at 4:53 p.m. local time off Iwate prefecture on the Pacific coast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). It was felt across a wide area, shaking buildings in Tokyo, hundreds of kilometres to the south. This powerful disturbance originated at a relatively shallow depth of 19 kilometres, and the Japan Meteorological Agency confirmed that the tremor registered an upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale in multiple districts, including Aomori, Iwate, and Miyagi. The Japan earthquake alert was immediately broadcast nationwide through official…
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