Video from the region showed cracks ripping through streets, collapsed houses and one seven-story building resting on its side after it was tipped over by the quake. Credit: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) — At least 40 people are dead and scores injured in a powerful earthquake that hit off the Noto Peninsula on Japan's northwest coast, toppling buildings, buckling roads and triggering a blaze that ripped through a city on Jan. 1, 2024.
One of the places hardest hit by the magnitude-7.6 tremor was Wajima, a city of about 23,000 people known for its lacquerware and fishing port on the Sea of Japan. A fire in the heart of the city after the quake engulfed about 200 structures, Kyodo News reported.
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