{"id":427827,"date":"2025-12-06T02:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427827\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T02:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:40:16","slug":"japan-downgrades-tokyo-quake-damage-estimate-to-534bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427827\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan downgrades Tokyo quake damage estimate to $534bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/natural-disasters\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natural disasters<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">However, disruptions to sewage, electricity and other infrastructure to be more severe<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251205N Tokyo Earthquake Drills REUTERS\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Rescue workers pull a life-size doll\u00a0trapped under debris during an earthquake disaster drill\u00a0in Tokyo. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>SACHIKO KAWAHARA and KEITO NAKAOKA<\/p>\n<p>December 6, 2025 03:49 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The damage caused by a significant\u00a0earthquake should it strike\u00a0the heart of Tokyo would\u00a0cause significantly less damage than was previously estimated,\u00a0according to an unpublished\u00a0government report, Nikkei has learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natural disasters However, disruptions to sewage, electricity and other infrastructure to be more severe Rescue workers pull a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":427828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[199035,11366,199034,746,169656,170,68571,159,10855,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-427827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-534bn","9":"tag-damage","10":"tag-downgrades","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-estimate","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-quake","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-tokyo","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115670314211704149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}