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Series of earthquakes in Tokara Islands shakes Eurasian-Philippine Sea plate boundary… Korea needs to prepare for impact

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  1. The series of earthquakes in the Tokara Islands southwest of Kyushu, Japan, which has continued for nearly a month, has surpassed 2,000.
  2. A seismic intensity of 6- was recorded on Akusekijima on the 3rd, and more than 60 nearby residents continue to live in evacuation shelters.
  3. Professor Hong Tae-kyung of Yonsei University warned that an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or greater in the Nankai Trough could affect the Korean Peninsula as well, within 500 km.

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Series of earthquakes in Tokara Islands shakes Eurasian-Philippine Sea plate boundary… Korea needs to prepare for impact

Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): 도카라 열도 연쇄지진, 유라시아판·필리핀해판 경계 흔들… 韓, 영향 대비 필요

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