Japan’s Tokara islands hit by 900 earthquakes in two weeks | Japan

According to the country’s air agency, more than 900 earthquakes in the last two weeks have shook a distant island chain in Southern Japan in the last two weeks, and its inhabitants cannot sleep and fear what happens next.

Although there was no major damage, the Japan Meteorological Agency admitted that he did not know when the earthquakes would end.

Ayataka Ebita, Director of the Agency’s Earthquake and Tsunami Observation Department, was recorded at 15:30 in the island chain in the south of Kyushu’s main Japanese island.

“Today, the number has exceeded 900 from 16:00 today, ve and considering the probability of being hit by stronger earthquakes, the residents should be preparing to get shelter or evacuate.

Mainichi Shimbun, until Tuesday in the 10 -day period in the chain of the record of 740 earthquakes, he said. All of the earthquakes were recorded as 1 or higher on a 7 -point Japanese seismic density scale, which is used to identify the rinsing level, the 7 most powerful one. A lower 5 is considered strong enough to force people to alarm and force them to hold them to something stable.

Village Village, said that the residents were tired because they could not sleep on the website. The regional publisher said to the MBC, “It seems to be trembling.” “Even falling asleep is very scary.”

Another said: “It is not clear when all this will end. I have to consider emptying and emptying my children.”

The official data shows that the number of daily earthquakes peaked on June 23 on June 23, and then fell to 15 on June 26 and 16 on June 27th. However, the number rose to 34 on 28 June and 98 on June 29. 62 earthquakes were recorded on June 30.

According to the Meteorological Agency, a similar period in the Tokara region intensive seismic activity was recorded in September 2023 346 earthquakes.

Seven out of 12 Far Tokara Island, there are approximately 700 people in total.

Experts, the extraordinary topography of the area around the Tokara Islands, then relieved in the form of earthquake in the seaside under the side of the construction of the print, he says.

Japan is one of the most active countries of the world sitting on four large tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific “Fire Ring”.

Hosting approximately 125 million people, the archipelago is experiencing about 1,500 tremors per year and constitutes about 18% of world earthquakes. The vast majority is mild, but they vary according to the damage positions they cause and the depth they hit.

Approximately 600 people died after hitting the Noto Peninsula in Japan on the New Year Day in 2024. In March 2011, more than 18,000 people died after triggering a powerful tsunami that ruined most of the 9.0 earthquake in Northeast Japan. The earthquake also triggered a triple melting at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

This week, the government of Japan said that experts should be done more to prepare for a possible “megaquake ğı, which experts believe that they have the chance to hit the Pacific Coast in the next thirty years.

Although it is impossible to predict when an earthquake would take place, in January, a government panel affected the possibility of a major jolt between 75% and 82% in the next 30 years.

According to a revised government estimation in March, a megaquake in the area accompanied by a tsunami can kill 298,000 people and cause damage to up to 2 TN.