Japan earthquake - 22:11 JST 13 Feb 2012 26.5N 128.8E 10 km M4.3 Okinawa-honto Kinkai

[makoto]

22:11 JST 13 Feb 2012 26.5N 128.8E 10 km M4.3 Okinawa-honto Kinkai



http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/201202...91-132211.html...

[makoto]

20:15 JST 29 Jan 2012 28.5N 128.9E 10 km M4.3 Tokara-retto Kinkai



http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/7/2012...91-292015.html...

[makoto]

Kuchinoerabu island volcano warning has been canceled




jma http://www.jma.go.jp/en/volcano/map_6.html

14 Jan, 2011 Shin-dake



Japan Coast Guard http://www1.kaiho.mlit...

[makoto]

50th explosive eruption this year seen at Mt.Sakurajima


jma http://www.seisvol.kishou.go.jp/fuku...06/506-eng.htm


Japan Coast Guard http://www1.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/GIJUTSU.../kaiyo28-2.htm
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[makoto]

21:26 JST 20 Dec 2011 28.7N 128.7E 130 km M4.2 Tokara-retto Kinkai




jma http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/7/778/...91-202126.html...

[makoto]

Man-made quake triggered to check Sakurajima magma

Japanese seismologists have triggered an artificial earthquake using dynamite in an experiment to help predict major eruptions at Mount Sakurajima, an active volcano in southwestern Japan....

[makoto]

Japan launches info-gathering satellite

Japan has successfully launched an information-gathering satellite into orbit.

Monday, December 12, 2011 12:02 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20111212_17.html...

[makoto]

10:22 JST 11 Dec 2011 28.2N 129.5E 40 km M5.4 Amami-oshima Kinkai




jma http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/7/778/...91-111022.html

M5.4 quake jolts southern Japan

FUKUOKA...

[makoto]

Tornado-like wind destroys house, kills 3 in Kagoshima Pref.

KAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) -- Strong wind, believed to be a tornado, destroyed a house in the town of Tokunoshima in Kagoshima Prefecture on Friday evening, leaving three people dead,...

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Japan Hospital Offers Orthopedic Surgery Program for Chinese

Beijing, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)--A hospital in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, has launched a project to invite Chinese people to receive cutting-edge orthopedic surgeries in...

[makoto]

Izumi crane observation center opens

observation center and disinfection tank


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[makoto]

Once extinct in wild, Oriental white storks making slow comeback in Japan

Oriental white storks, a special protected species in Japan that once vanished from the wild in the 1970s, are making a gradual comeback, with some 1,000 sightings...

[makoto]

Amami-Oshima Island sees record downpour

KAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) -- The town of Setouchi in Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, saw a record downpour in the area Wednesday morning, prompting the municipal government to recommend all of...

[makoto]

1st flock of swans, crane arrive

2 Oct.,
2 swans in lake Hyo, Niigata pref
lake hyo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Hy%C5%8Dko

3 Oct.,
8 swans in lake Inawashiro, Fukushima pref
lake Inawashiro htt...

[makoto]

Message bottle from Japan washes ashore in Hawaii

A glass bottle containing a letter and photograph of a Japanese school has washed ashore in Hawaii, 5 years after it was dropped into the ocean in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan..........