(Reuters) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit Kumamoto prefecture in southern Japan on Tuesday, broadcaster NHK said. A tsunami warning had not been issued, NHK added. Two deadly quakes hit the same region last week, killing 44 and injuring more than 1,000.
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Earthquake expert Dr. Ishmael C. Narag discusses preparing for an earthquake
Earthquake expert Dr. Ishmael C. Narag, from the OIC Seismology Division of Phivolcs discusses preparing for an earthquake.
Japan quake survivors struggle with shortages, search for missing goes on
Survivors of a series of Japanese quakes measuring up to 7.3 struggled on Tuesday with shortages of food and water as the death toll rose to 44 and rescuers dug through mud and rubble for the missing, but hopes dimmed of finding them alive. Japanese stocks bounced back from Monday’s slide, with electronics manufacturer Sony Corp climbing 6.7 percent after saying its image sensor plant in Kumamoto, shut after the quake, makes components mainly […]
US prepares Ospreys for relief effort in Japan quake regions
FUTENMA, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. military Osprey aircraft took off on Sunday (April 17) from Futenma U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan, to provide aid for those affected by multiple large-scale earthquakes in the Kumamoto region in the south of the country. The aircraft are scheduled to land first at a Japanese Self Defence Force base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi prefecture, to load food and water for the evacuees. As early as Monday (April 18), the […]
Rescuers race against landslides to reach Japan quake victims; death toll reaches 41
by Harumi Ozawa Mashiki, Japan (AFP) – Rescuers were racing against the weather and the threat of more landslides Sunday to reach people still trapped by two big earthquakes that hit southern Japan. At last 41 people are known to have died in the double disaster, with at least six still missing — feared buried in shattered houses or under torrents of mud. Heavy rain was lashing the area around Kumamoto, where officials have warned quake-loosened hillsides could […]
Magnitude 6 earthquake hits Japan
TOKYO, Japan – According to the United States Geological Survey, a magnitude 6 earthquake hit the southwestern portion of Japan. Said quake centered on Komamoto City and resulted in 9 deaths and hundreds injured. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
Strong quake in southwestern Japan kills nine, topples homes
by Shingo Ito TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nine people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit southern Japan, collapsing homes, sparking fires and injuring hundreds, officials said Friday as rescuers worked through the night to find residents feared trapped in rubble. Tens of thousands of people reportedly fled their homes and television footage showed damaged buildings, buckled roads and lumps of broken concrete in the streets after the 6.5-magnitude quake struck the southwestern island of Kyushu. […]
Japan military jet with six aboard missing
Tokyo, Japan (AFP)—-A Japanese air force plane with six people aboard went missing on Wednesday, the defense ministry announced, and a search was under way in mountainous terrain. The U-125 aircraft left a base in Kagoshima prefecture on Kyushu island in southwestern Japan in the early afternoon, said Yoshiyuki Sugiyama, head of the Air Self-Defense Force. The small jet “disappeared from the radar,” Sugiyama told a press briefing. Public broadcaster NHK showed footage of […]
Military spending rises again in 2015
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Rising tensions worldwide helped push up military expenditure in 2015, the first increase after four years of declining spending, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report published on Tuesday. For the full-year 2015, world military spending totaled $1.67 trillion, a rise of one percent from the previous year. The increase was attributed primarily to more expenditure in Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East, while the decline […]
Japan submarine, warships make a port visit to the Phillippines
MANILA, Philippines (Reuters) — A Japanese submarine and two escort warships made a port visit to the Philippines on Sunday (April 3) in a show of growing military ties between the two nations. Officials from the Philippine navy welcomed the Japanese training submarine JS Oyashio, along with the destroyer class ships JS Ariake and JS Setogiri. It was the first visit of a Japanese submarine to the Philippines in 15 years. “This is just an […]
Vessel preparing to ship plutonium to US arrives at Japanese port: media
Tokyo, Japan (AFP)—An armed nuclear transport vessel preparing to ship a huge cache of plutonium — enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs — to the United States arrived at a Japanese port on Monday amid tight security, local media said. The stockpile, provided by the US, Britain and France decades ago for research purposes, is being returned to the US as part of a bilateral storage deal. Television footage showed the Britain-registered ship entering a port […]
Japan police arrest American sailor on suspicion of rape of woman on island
Tokyo, Japan (AFP)—Japanese police said Monday they have arrested a 24-year-old American sailor on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman on Okinawa, in a case that could further fan sentiment against Washington’s military presence on the fortified southern island. Okinawa was the site of a brutal World War II battle between Japan and the United States but is now considered a strategic linchpin supporting the two countries’ decades-long security alliance. Pacifist sentiment, however, runs high […]
