A powerful earthquake hit the Noto region of central Japan on Monday, triggering tsunami warnings and evacuation orders in several prefectures, causing buildings to collapse and disrupting electricity and mobile phone services in Ishikawa Prefecture, the epicenter of the quake, officials and Japan’s public broadcaster said.
The quake struck at around 4:10 p.m. and had a magnitude of 7.6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake measured 7.5 magnitude.
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