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It was very shocking to hear about the Huge earthquake that hit the Middle Kyushu, Japan,  mainly Kumamoto area on April 14 and 16.  and small earthquakes have still been continuing. Huge one happened twice within a short time. and first one was magnitude 6.4 ,  earthquake, and the second one was magnitude 7.3, with an intensity on the Japanese scale of 7. According to the news, nearly 1,200 houses had been destroyed. and after 1 week past, 48 people died from it. and while people were taking refuge in shelters, there were 11 people who died from their injuries from the earthquake. Over 1,310 got serious injury. In the present, about 81,253 people are in shelter in all the areas that got damaged by the earthquake.  and many people who could not be in the shelter centers are staying outside. and also recently, almost same week as  Japan,  Ecuador was hit by 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week and 646 died and around 12,500 people were injured and left 130 missing along the co

This is unbelievable. 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan at around 2:46pm on March 11 (JST) causing widespread damage with blackouts, fire and gigantic tsunami. I’ve never heard of such a huge earthquake. It was magnitude 9.0 !! Early information stated as 8.8 but after further review Japan corrected it to 9.0 . It seems that Miyagi was hit the hardest, then Fukushima, Iwate, Aomori, IbaragI , Chiba ( in the pacific coast area ), Yamagata, Niigata, Nagano, Kanagawa, Saitama.. According to an earthquake specialist, this is 180 times bigger than Hanshin ( Kobe ) earthquake ( Magnitude 7.3) which happened in 1995. And it only occurs once every 1,000 years. And seems like aftershock earthquakes 5.0 to 6.5 magnitude have been continuing. North side of Nagano on March 12, Miyagi , Nagano on March 13, south side of IbaragI on March 14, and also another big one magnitude 6.4 hit east side of Shizuoka area where there is Mt.Fuji