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Japan Meteorological Agency Mistakenly Reports Magnitude 9.9 Quake…Emergency Earthquake Alert Canceled After 8 Minutes

Japan’s meteorological agency mistakenly estimated a quake near the Kamchatka Peninsula at magnitude 9.9 and issued an emergency earthquake alert for a wide area, only to cancel it about eight minutes later. The actual quake was magnitude 6.9, and in Japan, shaking of intensity 1 was confirmed in parts of Hokkaido.