JEPUN: Gempa Bumi : Latest - 6.2 richter di Kyushu

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Gempa bumi kuat di Pantai Timur Honshu, Jepun

KUALA LUMPUR: Gempa bumi kuat berukuran 7 pada skala Richter berlaku di Pantai Timur Pulau Honshu pada 7.43 pagi ini.

Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia berkata walaupun tidak mendatangkan ancaman tsunami tetapi jabatan itu akan memantau keadaan dan sebarang perkembangan terkini akan dimaklumkan segera.

Gempa bumi itu berlaku di koordinat 39 darjah utara dan 140.9 darjah timur, kira-kira 380km ke timur laut Tokyo dan 4,310 km ke timur laut Kudat, Sabah. - Bernama




aku dengar kat berita tadi  kata  2 orang dah dikenal pasti mati.. dan 80 cedera... tapi aku bajet yg musnah mesti teruk.. 7 richter tu kuat tu..

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Gempa bumi gegar utara Jepun, tiga maut
14/06/2008

TOKYO 14 Jun

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Northern Japan quake kills 3, more missing
By Toru Hanai
OSHU, Japan (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck rural northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least three people, officials and televisions said. Several others were trapped in hotspring resort hit by a landslide.

A view of a road destroyed by an earthquake near Kurihara City, Miyagi Prefecture June 14, 2008. (REUTERS/KYODO)

The quake, at 8:43 a.m. (2343 GMT Friday), was centred in Iwate, a sparsely populated area around 300 km (190 miles) north of Tokyo. Dozens of aftershocks also jolted the area.

"I was outside and I wanted to rush back to the store, but I couldn't move because it was shaking," a liquor store owner told Fuji TV. "Broken bottles are all over the store, and there's a smell of alcohol everywhere."

One of the people killed was caught in a landslide, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura told reporters. A second was killed as he ran out of a building and was run over by a car. NHK said another man was killed at a dam construction site hit by falling rocks.

At least four people were buried in a landslide at a hot spring resort in Kurihara city in hard-hit Miyagi prefecture, TV Asahi reported, though it was unknown whether they were dead.

Three more were missing at a work site after another landslide in Kurihara, Kyodo news agency said, adding that more than 100 people were hurt.

Water containing a small amount of radiation leaked within a Tokyo Electric Power Co nuclear power facility in the region, but there was no leakage outside, a spokesman for Japan's biggest utility said.

Rail operator JR East said 2,000 were trapped on bullet trains that stopped between stations.

The energy released by the quake was far less than in the case of the magnitude 7.9 earthquake that hit southwestern China on May 12, leaving nearly 87,000 people dead or missing.

"The seismic energy of the China quake was one order of magnitude greater," Naoshi Hirata, a professor at Tokyo University's Earthquake Research Institute, told Reuters.

He cautioned that casualties could rise as reports came in from isolated areas, but added the region's sparse population and Japan's strict building standards were likely to keep casualties and damage limited.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater, prompting tough building codes to try to limit damage.

Four people were badly injured near the airport in the northeast coastal city of Sendai as a bus they were travelling in was jolted by the earthquake, TV reported.

"I was at home and we had finished eating breakfast," said Akira Nishimura, an official from the city hall in Kurihara. "We got under the table", he said referring to himself, his 4-year-old child and his wife.

MORE AFTERSHOCKS EXPECTED

A Japan Meteorological Agency official told a news conference that aftershocks were likely to continue for some time.
The government had set up an emergency response centre, the Tokyo Fire Department sent a relief team and Iwate Governor Takuya Tasso asked for help from a military disaster relief unit.

"We are doing all that we can, involving local governments, the the country's Self-Defense Forces (military) and police," Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda told reporters. "The most important thing is to rescue people.

Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc said more than 30,000 people had lost electricity supplies.

The focus of the magnitude 7.0 tremor was 10 km (6 miles) underground in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its website. (http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/14090100384.html)

Children and teachers at a daycare centre were slightly injured, and some highways were closed, Japanese television reported, with aerial pictures showing landslides that had swept through a house and swamped some roads.

In worst hit areas, the earthquake was measured at an upper 6 on a Japanese intensity scale, which measures ground motion. It may be impossible to keep standing in a quake with that reading, the meteorological agency says.

"It shook for about two minutes," Kazue Hishiya, manager of a hotel in Iwate prefecture, said by telephone.

"Three television sets fell off shelves, elevators have stopped, and we've turned off the boiler."

Another Kurihara city official said that a Japanese-style inn had been hit by a landslide, blocking the first floor, and that guests had moved to the second floor.

A JR East spokesman said it could take nine hours to complete safety checks and resume bullet train services.
An official at Tohoku said its nuclear plants at Onagawa and Higashidori were running as usual.

Top Japanese refiner Nippon Oil Corp's 145,000 barrel-per-day Sendai refinery appeared not to have been damaged after the quake, a company official said. The refinery is currently shut for scheduled maintenance.

Sony Corp and Fujitsu Ltd said they had stopped production at semiconductor factories in the region but had not found any damage so far.

In October 2004, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck the Niigata region in northern Japan, killing 65 people and injuring more than 3,000.

That was the deadliest quake since a magnitude 7.3 tremor hit the city of Kobe in 1995, killing more than 6,400.

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aturday June 14, 2008
FACTBOX - Japan and earthquakes
REUTERS - A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 rocked rural northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least three people, injuring more than 100 and sending landslides sweeping down mountainous hillsides.

Following are some facts about Japan and earthquakes.

A worker controls traffic on a road cracked by an earthquake in Oshu in the northern part of Japan June 14, 2008. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

* Japan, situated on the "Ring of Fire" arc of volcanoes and oceanic trenches that partly encircles the Pacific Basin, accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.

* A tremor occurs in Japan at least every five minutes, and each year there are up to 2,000 quakes that can be felt by people.

* The Great Kanto earthquake of Sept. 1, 1923, which had a magnitude of 7.9, killed more than 140,000 people in the Tokyo area. Seismologists have said another such quake could strike the city at any time.

* On Jan. 16, 1995, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 hit central Japan, devastating the western port city of Kobe. It was the worst earthquake to hit Japan in 50 years, killing more than 6,400 and causing an estimated $100 billion in damage.

* On Oct. 23, 2004, a 6.8 magnitude quake struck the Niigata region, about 250 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, killing 65 people and injuring 3,000.

* On March 25, 2007, a 6.9 magnitude quake struck the Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, about 300 km west of Tokyo, killing one person, injuring more than 200 and destroying hundreds of homes.

* On July 16, 2007, a 6.8 magnitude quake struck Niigata prefecture, about 250 km (150 miles) northwest of Tokyo, killing 11 people and injuring 1,950. The tremor caused radiation leaks at the world's largest nuclear plant, which officials said were within safety regulations and posed no threat to the environment. The leaks nonetheless reignited fears about nuclear safety in the quake-prone country. [T4387]

* The Tokyo metropolitan government said in March 2006 that a magnitude 7.3 earthquake under Tokyo would probably kill more than 5,600 people and injure almost 160,000. Official estimates of economic damage have topped more than $1 trillion.

* In a report published in 2004, German insurer Munich Re was even more pessimistic, saying a severe earthquake in the Tokyo-Yokohama area would kill hundreds of thousands of people, cause damage running into trillions of dollars and have global economic repercussions.

* The Tokyo-Yokohama metropolis, with a population of 35 million, has the highest "at risk" rating from natural disasters such as earthquakes of any of the world's 30 "megacities", the report said.

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KAWASAN tanah tinggi di Kurihara, Miyagi runtuh akibat gempa
bumi di Jepun pagi semalam.


KURIHARA - Gempa bumi sekuat 7.2 pada skala Richter melanda pergunungan dan jelapang padi di utara Jepun semalam menyebabkan sekurang-kurangnya enam mati dan lapan yang lain dilaporkan hilang.

Para pegawai berkata, lebih 144 penduduk cedera manakala 100 pengunjung resort yang sedang mandi di kolam air panas dikhuatiri terperangkap ketika bencana pada pukul 8.43 pagi itu berlaku.

Ketika helikopter serta anggota tentera dikerahkan ke kawasan kejadian media tempatan turut melaporkan jumlah kecederaan sebenarnya melebihi 200 orang.

Gegaran itu menyebabkan kawasan lereng gunung runtuh, jambatan musnah dan sebuah janakuasa elektrik nuklear diletakkan di bawah keadaan berjaga-jaga setelah 20 liter air beradioaktif tertumpah.

Pegawai Kementerian Perdagangan dan Industri, Yoshinori Moriyama berkata, tidak ada kebocoran dikesan di luar kompleks janakuasa itu.

Bekalan elektrik kepada lebih 29,000 rumah terputus tetapi ia kembali pulih secara berperingkat menjelang malam semalam.

"Saya tidak boleh berbuat apa-apa, saya tidak boleh bergerak," kata seorang penduduk, Akiko Kikusawa, 82.

Berikutan kejadian itu, beratus-ratus penduduk terpaksa mendapat perlindungan sementera di kawasan yang disediakan kerajaan Jepun.

Perdana Menteri, Yasuo Fukuda berkata, beliau mengarahkan pasukan tentera, polis serta agensi-agensi kerajaan lain untuk mencari dan menyelamat mangsa yang terperangkap.

"Usaha paling penting ialah untuk menyelamat seberapa banyak nyawa yang boleh dan kami melakukannya sebaik mungkin," kata Fukuda.

Kejadian gempa bumi yang terburuk melanda Jepun ialah pada Januari 1995 menyebabkan lebih 6,400 penduduk Kobe terbunuh. - AP

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latest info 5pm news tadi -

9 confirmed mati  dalam gempa bumi ni -

tapi so far la -- tak tahu jumlah semua lagi --

lagipun biasanya lepas big earthquake -- ada aftershocks pula
7.2 magnitude is not small --
huge impact - big energy released -

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Cari 11 mangsa hilang


BEBERAPA pekerja memeriksa sebuah pusat spa di Kurihara
Jepun semalam.

KURIHARA - Anggota-anggota pasukan penyelamat semalam melancarkan operasi mencari 11 mangsa yang masih hilang dalam satu gempa bumi kuat yang menggegarkan utara Jepun.

Gempa bumi sekuat 7.2 magnitud itu menggegarkan kawasan terpencil di Miyagi dan Iwate 300 kilometer ke utara Tokyo dengan mengakibatkan sembilan penduduk mati serta 200 lagi cedera.

"Kami tidak tahu ke mana harus kami pergi atau apa yang harus kami lakukan," kata seorang penduduk, Naoshi Miura, 80, ketika dia dan isterinya dipindahkan dari kediaman mereka yang musnah.

Beberapa ratus gegaran susulan juga dikesan selepas bencana itu dan pihak berkuasa memberi amaran gegaran yang lebih kuat mungkin berlaku.

Seramai 400 anggota penyelamat menggali sisa runtuhan sebuah resort air panas terpencil yang tertimbus oleh tanah runtuh.

Para penyelamat terpaksa melintasi satu sungai lumpur dengan menggunakan papan untuk sampai ke kawasan runtuhan bangunan setinggi dua tingkat di resort itu.

Para pegawai memberitahu bahawa mayat dua wanita dan seorang lelaki berjaya dikeluarkan daripada sisa runtuhan bangunan resort itu. - Reuters

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Gempa kuat landa Ryukyu, Jepun

KUALA LUMPUR: Gempa bumi kuat berukuran 6 pada skala Richter, melanda Kepulauan Ryukyu, Jepun jam 3.42 petang ini.

Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia dalam kenayatannya hari ini berkata, gempa itu berpusat pada koordinat 27.7 darjah utara dan 128.6 darjah timur, kira-kira 577km selatan Kobe dan 2,625km timur laut Kudat, Sabah.

Sungguhpun tidak membawa ancaman tsunami, jabatan itu bagaimanapun berkata keadaan itu akan dipantau dan pengumuman mengenai perkembangan terkini akan segera dibuat.

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gempa bumi akan sentiasa berlaku..ia rantaian...cuma manusia saja yang bodoh dalam menilai peranan alam

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Gempa kuat di Utara Jepun, 91 cedera
TOKYO: Gempa bumi kuat di perairan Utara Jepun awal pagi tadi mengakibatkan sekurang-kurangnya 91 orang cedera, kejadian tanah runtuh dan bekalan elektrik terputus membabitan ribuan penduduk.

Agensi Meteorologi Jepun berkata, gempa berukuran 6.8 skala Richter itu bagaimanapun tidak menyebabkan tsunami.

Gempa berlaku selepas jam 12 malam itu berpusat di perairan Iwate, 450 kilometer di utara Tokyo.


Setakat ini, 91 orang dilaporkan cedera disebabkan kaca pecah dan objek yang melayang menimpa mereka.

Jurucakap Polis berkata, gempa itu menyebabkan gegaran kira-kira 40 saat, terutama di Utara Jepun.

Bagaimanapun, tiada laporan mengenai masalah yang mungkin melanda loji nuklear di kawasan gempa yang ketika ini beroperasi seperti biasa, lapor media tempatan.

Perkhidmatan kereta api 'bullet' juga digantung sementara di beberapa kawasan, kata East Japan Railway Co.

Polis tempatan juga mengesahkan gempa itu juga menyebabkan beberapa kejadian tanah runtuh. - AP



aku dengar kat radio pagi tadi 90 mati so far.. tapi tak boleh nak confirm... petang ni bila aku dapat break lagi aku update ler...  jepun dgn china ni selalu kena gempa..  akhir2 ni makin menjadik lak..  

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takutler plak dengo .. diorg kt duk kt plat lingkaran api ..

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ish sih dunia dah tua....BERhati2 la semua:flower:

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Strong quake jolts north Japan, 107 hurt
By Chisa Fujioka
HACHINOHE, Japan (Reuters) - A strong earthquake jolted northern Japan early on Thursday, injuring more than 100 people, trapping hundreds in halted trains and affecting production at some high-tech factories.

Tombstones that collapsed during the earthquake are seen at Choryuji temple in Hachinohe, northern Japan July 24, 2008. (REUTERS/Issei Kato)

The quake, which struck at 00:26 (1526 GMT Wednesday) and had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, was the latest in a series to hit the sparsely populated, mountainous regions of Iwate and Aomori.

A National Police Agency official said 107 people were injured, 16 seriously. Many were hurt in falls or suffered cuts from broken glass.
Officials warned of possible landslides, and hundreds of homes were without running water, broadcaster NHK said.
At Choryuji temple in Hachinohe, about 550 km northeast of Tokyo, one of the worst hit towns, rows of tall gravestones were knocked over and some were broken.

"It's such a shock to see this mess," said 77-year-old Toshikatsu Sawashiro, who came to check his family grave.
A local government building in the same area was also a mass of broken glass, with fallen ceilings and toppled shelves.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.

Thursday's tremor follows a string of earthquakes in the same region, the first of which in mid-June killed at least 10 people and left as many again missing.
The damage was relatively minor in Thursday's quake because its focus was more than 100 km underground, a seismologist said.

"It was deep," said Naoshi Hirata, a professor of geophysics, at Tokyo University. "A shallow quake of magnitude 6.8 would cause a lot of damage, but a quake deep underground is the same as one that's far away."

Hundreds of people were initially trapped on overnight trains that were halted after the quake, but were later able to get out safely, rail operator JR East said. Service was set to resume on high-speed bullet trains, but many local trains were still not running 12 hours after the tremor.

Some stretches of expressway were briefly closed to traffic in the region, but they were later reopened, said a spokesman for the operators. Some smaller roads remained blocked by landslides.

With few strong aftershocks to hamper operations, the clean-up started almost immediately. Most schools in the region were open as usual and phone and electricity services were restored, providers said.

"There were no reports of deaths or people buried alive," top government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura told reporters. "But the prime minister has ordered us to continue checking."

Tohoku Electric and Tokyo Electric said their nuclear power plants in northern Japan had not been affected.

Fujitsu Ltd said it stopped production lines at a semiconductor factory in Iwate, and Toshiba Corp and NEC Corp said they had stopped chip plants for checks.

But Tohoku Electric said it restarted a 250-megawatt oil-fired power plant in Aomori that was shut down after the quake. Nippon Steel also restarted steel output at its Kamaishi works.

In October 2004, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck the Niigata region in northern Japan, killing 65 people and injuring more than 3,000.
That was the deadliest quake since a magnitude 7.3 tremor hit the city of Kobe in 1995, killing more than 6,400.


last aku dengar ada sorang mati... kengkadang mula2 sorang dua... last last ratus2 pulak yg mati...  tapi mmg jepang ni selalu benar kena gempa bumi ni

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bumi kita semakin tua..
macam2 benda yg kita xjangka akan berlaku

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Jepun cari mangsa



IWAIZUMI - Pihak berkuasa Jepun semalam melancarkan operasi mencari dan menyelamat mangsa-mangsa gempa bumi dalam kabus tebal serta hujan lebat setelah negara berkenaan dilanda gegaran kuat.

Gempa bumi dengan kekuatan 6.8 pada skala Richter tengah malam kelmarin menyebabkan lebih 116 orang cedera di Pulau Honshu selain menyebabkan tanah runtuh di beberapa tempat.

Pihak polis berkata, sebanyak 26 daripada mangsa berada dalam keadaan kritikal setelah mereka terjatuh.

Beberapa buah helikopter tentera dihantar ke wilayah itu tetapi kabus tebal menyebabkan operasi terganggu berikutan jarak penglihatan yang terhad.

"Saya tidak pernah mengalami gempa bumi sekuat ini. Ketika kejadian, saya sedang tidur tetapi secara tiba-tiba semuanya bergoyang sehingga tidak dapat bergerak," kata seorang pegawai bencana, Kenji Sasaki.

Perdana Menteri, Yasuo Fukuda berkata, dia sudah mula mahu tidur pada waktu kejadian di mana gegarannya amat kuat sehingga bangunan-bangunan di Tokyo bergegar.

Jurucakap kerajaan, Nobutaka Machimura berkata, kejadian itu bagaimanapun tidak membabitkan sebarang kemalangan jiwa. - AFP

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6.8 richter scale is quite a strong quake ...
luckily tak ramai jumlah kematian tu -

tapi tak tahulah pula - akan datang
sebab ada yang cedera parah -

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Gempa gegar utara Jepun

TOKYO: Gempa berkekuatan 5.0 Richter mengegarkan utara Jepun awal pagi ini tetapi tiada laporan segera mengenai kerosakan atau mangsa yang terbabit.

Agensi Meteorologi Jepun berkata, tiada amaran tsunami dikeluarkan berikutan gempa yang berlaku jam 9.13 pagi waktu tempatan (0013 GMT) itu.

Gempa dilaporkan berpusat di 50 kilometer (km) bawah paras laut di Lautan Pasifik berdekatan Fukushima atau 200km dari Tokyo. - AFP

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Gempa bumi 5.7 richter gegar Hokkaido

WASHINGTON: Gempa bumi cetek dan kuat pada skala 5.7 richter mengegarkan Hokkaido pagi ini, kata Pusat Kaji Geologikal Amerika Syarikat.

Pusat gempa ialah 79 kilometer (km) di tenggara Sapporo dan kedalamanya cuma 5.8 km.

Tiada laporan segera mengenai kemalangan jiwa atau kerosakan dan Agensi Meterologikal Jepun menyatakan tiada amaran tsunami dikeluarkan. - Reuters