On sunday, 9:42 a.m, a powerful eartquake, magnitude-6.9, struck KANAZAWA, japan. It killed at least one person and injuring 170 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides, cut power, interfered with phone service, broke water mains and snarled public transportationand and sparked a small tsunami along the coast. The tsunami was measured 6 inches and hit the shore 36 minutes later after the quake.
Later, the quake showed buildinds violently shaking for 30 seconds. Some buildinds were collapsed, windows of shops were, streets cluttered with roof tiles and roads with cracked pavement. Some said that inside their house was a mess, with everything smashed on the floor. And many was injured. Many of the injured were knocked down by the shaking or hurt by falling objects and broken galss.
And again, in october 2004, a magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit northern Japan, killing 40 people and damaging more than 6,000 homes. It was the deadliest to hit Japan since 1995, when a magnitude-7.2 quake killed 6,433 people in the western city of Kobe.
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