Tokyo, June 24 (IANS) Japan’s weather agency warned on Wednesday that the risk of life-threatening landslides and flooding was rapidly rising in the Kyushu region as extremely heavy rainfall battered southwestern Japan.Local residents have been urged to stay vigilant and take immediate steps to ensure their safety.According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), an extremely heavy downpour exceeding 50 mm per hour was observed in Nagasaki Prefecture in the early hours of Wednesday. In the hou…
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Tokyo, June 8 (IANS) Tsunami waves of several centimetres to around 20 cm have been observed along Japan’s Pacific coast as well as other parts of the country after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The weather agency issued tsunami advisories for coastal areas stretching from Ibaraki Prefecture on Japan’s eastern Pacific coast to the island prefecture of Okinawa in the south on Monday morning, reports Xinhua news agen…
Tokyo, June 8 (IANS) Japan’s weather agency on Monday issued tsunami advisories for the coastal areas from Ibaraki Prefecture on the country’s eastern Pacific coast to the island prefecture of Okinawa in the south after a strong earthquake struck the Philippines. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the waters in the southern Philippines on Monday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said that the tectonic …
Tokyo, June 2 (IANS) A severe tropical storm is moving north toward Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu on Tuesday after bearing down on Okinawa the previous day, the country’s weather agency said. As of 7 a.m. local time, Typhoon Jangmi, the season’s sixth typhoon, was located west-northwest of Amami-Oshima Island between Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures and moving north-northeast at a speed of about 25 km per hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.Over 10 people were injured in Ok…