{"id":493991,"date":"2025-12-09T07:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/injured-rise-to-33-due-to-7-5-magnitude-earthquake-in-japan-amid-mega-quake-alert\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:38:35","slug":"injured-rise-to-33-due-to-7-5-magnitude-earthquake-in-japan-amid-mega-quake-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/injured-rise-to-33-due-to-7-5-magnitude-earthquake-in-japan-amid-mega-quake-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured rise to 33 due to 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Japan amid ‘mega-quake’ alert"},"content":{"rendered":"Tokyo.-<\/strong> At least 33 people<\/a> were injured by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Japan on Monday night and that has affected several high-speed train lines this Tuesday and forced the suspension of classes, amid the warning of the risk of a ‘megathrust earthquake’ in the coming days.\n\nThe highest number of injuries, 22, was recorded in Aomori prefecture, where the epicenter of the earthquake occurred, said the public television network NHK. Authorities continue to assess the extent of the damage this Tuesday, said Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in statements to the press.\n\n\n

Read more: A 5.8 magnitude earthquake shakes northern Japan<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nTakaichi asked to take extreme precautions in the face of the possibility of an earthquake similar to or greater than the one in the coming days in the area, following the alert issued last night by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).\n\nThe ‘megathrust earthquake’ warning, which will last a week and is similar to past alerts such as the one issued after the magnitude 7.1 tremor that shook southwestern Japan in August 2024, is based on statistics that demonstrate a higher probability of strong earthquakes after a magnitude 7 or greater earthquake in the Japan Trench.\n\nTakaichi urged the population to remain prepared for potential evacuations like the one in the last few hours, which specifically affected more than 20,000 people after the meteorological authorities issued a tsunami alert that affected the Pacific coasts of the archipelago, where tide rises of up to 70 centimeters were observed.\n\nNHK reported that some people rushed to buy supplies and emergency kits in case of new earthquakes. The earthquake caused the partial suspension of operations of the high-speed bullet train ‘shinkansen’ in northern Japan, which were restored this Tuesday, as well as the cancellation of classes in some areas.\n\nThe earthquake occurred at 23:15 on Monday (14:15 GMT) in the sea off the coast of Aomori Prefecture (northeast), with its epicenter 50 kilometers deep, and reached level 6 upper on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 levels in the northeast of the territory, focused on measuring the agitation on the surface and its destructive potential.\n\nBy the early hours of this Tuesday, at least 15 tremors of magnitude greater than 3 had occurred, including one of 6.4 at 6:52 (21:52 GMT on Monday), although the damage is still being assessed.\n\nThe Japanese archipelago had not experienced an earthquake of this magnitude since the 7.6 magnitude earthquake on New Year’s Day 2024 in the Noto Peninsula, a rural and aging area in the central zone of the Sea of Japan coast, which caused 400 deaths.\n\nJapan sits on the so-called Ring of Fire, one of the world’s most active seismic zones, and suffers earthquakes relatively frequently, so its infrastructure is specially designed to withstand tremors.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tokyo.- At least 33 people were injured by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Japan on Monday night and that has affected several high-speed train lines this Tuesday and forced the suspension of classes, amid the warning of the risk of a ‘megathrust earthquake’ in the coming days. The highest number of injuries, 22, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24vB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yoan Silverio","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-Captura-de-pantalla-2024-03-07-a-las-9.52.03\u202fp.-m-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}