April 17 (UPI) — A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit Japan at 11:14 p.m. Wednesday local time, off the west coast of Shikoku Island.

Initial reports said there was no threat of tsunami and only minor injuries and damage reported.

The quake’s epicenter, where the 6.6 magnitude was recorded, was in a strait called the Bungo-Suido Channel between Kyushu and Shikoku Islands.

According to news conference statements from Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, light injuries were reported, along with minor damage like broken water pipes, downed streetlights and some landslides onto a national highway.

The 6.6 measurement was on the Japanese scale of zero to 7.

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Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/04/17/Japan-Earthquake-Shikoku-Island-damage-minor/6521713374182/

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At least 65 people have been killed in a strong earthquake that struck south-western China and was felt by millions of people confined to their homes under a strict Covid lockdown in Chengdu.

The 6.6-magnitude quake hit about 26 miles (43km) south-east of the city of Kangding at a depth of about six miles, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said that 17 people died in Ya’an city, while 29 deaths were reported in neighbouring Ganzi prefecture.

“Another 16 people were missing and 50 were injured,” CCTV said late on Monday.

Tremors also shook buildings in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu and the nearby city of Chongqing.

One resident, Chen, said: “I felt it quite strongly and some of my neighbours on the ground floor said they felt it very noticeably.

“But because Chengdu is under epidemic management, people aren’t allowed to leave their residential compounds, so many of them rushed out into their courtyards.”

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/05/china-earthquake-deaths-sichuan-chengdu-lockdown

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JAKARTA (AFP) – A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian coast early on Monday (Jan 7), sending residents running out of their homes, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The quake hit at a depth of 60km under the Molucca Sea, some 175km north-north-west of the city of Ternate, according to the United States Geological Survey.

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties and Indonesia’s geophysics agency did not issue a tsunami alert.

“We felt the quake and some people got out of their house but there was no real panic. There is no damage in my area,” said a man from Ternate called Budi, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

Mr Bani Nasution, who was in the city of Manado when the quake struck, told AFP: “I ran out of my house and so did other people here, but we’ve all returned to our houses now.” A series of aftershocks also rocked the area.

Indonesia is still reeling from a deadly tsunami at the end of December triggered by an erupting volcano in the middle of the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra islands that killed more than 400 people.

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