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(Kyodo News via AP) Staff clean up shattered and scattered glass caused by the earthquake at JR Miyazaki Airport Station, in Miyazaki, in southwestern Japan, Monday Jan. 13, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP) ...

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan, prompting tsunami advisories in Miyazaki and Kochi Prefectures. Residents were evacuated as a precaution, with minor injuries reported. The ...

"Tsunami can strike repeatedly ... killing nearly 470 people in Japan's biggest jolt in over a decade, many of them elderly residents in the aftermath. Last August the JMA warned that the ...

the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Tsunami advisories for waves of a maximum height of 1 metre were issued for the southern prefectures of Miyazaki and Kochi. A 20-centimetre tsunami was later ...

The agency initially gave the magnitude estimate at 6.9, but later revised it down. There were no immediate reports of damage ...