{"id":120407,"date":"2026-11-08T02:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T02:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/120407\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T02:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T02:41:31","slug":"5-7-magnitude-quake-hits-central-japan-injures-over-20-in-aichi-and-shizuoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/120407\/","title":{"rendered":"5.7-magnitude quake hits central Japan, injures over 20 in Aichi and Shizuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">AICHI &#8211; An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 jolted central Japan early on Nov 8, leaving over 20 people injured in Aichi and Shizuoka prefectures, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The 1.04am temblor originated in the western part of Shizuoka prefecture at a depth of about 40km and registered upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale in Chita, Aichi, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. No tsunami warning was issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A seismic intensity of lower 5 was recorded in parts of Aichi, Nagano and Gifu prefectures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">At upper 5, most people find it difficult to walk without holding onto something and unfixed furniture may topple over, while at lower 5 objects such as dishes and books may fall from shelves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">No abnormalities were detected at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka, according to its operator, Chubu Electric Power Co.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The nuclear power station sits near the projected source area of a potential Nankai Trough megaquake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The weather agency said the possibility that the Nov 8 quake was linked to a possible Nankai Trough megaquake was \u201clow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Some local train services were suspended and Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains were delayed between Shizuoka and Gifu-Hashima stations following safety checks, the operators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The central government set up a liaison office to respond to the quake. KYODO NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AICHI &#8211; An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 jolted central Japan early on Nov 8, leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-120407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}