On Wednesday, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Honshu, the country's meteorological agency said.
It was centered on Aomori and Iwate prefectures on the northeast end of Honshu, Japan's main island.
The eye of Melor is forecast to track across the Japanese island of Honshu, passing north of Tokyo.
Despite a tunnel between Hokkaido and northern Honshu, Japan's main island, connections to the country's industrial heartland are poor.
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These failures could be played down because the events occurred in sparsely populated areas of Hokkaido and northern Honshu.
Inside a National Park on Honshu Island, this Geopark is a successful example of integrating geological heritage and local development.
Its most destructive on record was an 8.4 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 1, 1923 on the main, central, island of Honshu.
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It is the second of three big bridges planned in the early 1970s to link Japan's main island of Honshu to Shikoku.
"Taepodong shock" followed in 1998, when North Korea lobbed a ballistic missile over Honshu, the main Japanese island, and into the Pacific Ocean.
Around 130, 000 people perished in what has become known as the Great Kanto Earthquake because it took place in the Kanto plains region of Honshu.
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But Nagoya's new airport will be allowed to operate round the clock, and has modern transport facilities that businessmen across central Honshu are already scheming to exploit.
California time and Prophet hopped on the blower to find out whether critical parts made in northern Honshu would be available in sufficient quantities in the coming weeks and months.
The previous record was an 8.6-magnitude earthquake that struck near the Chubu Region near southwestern Honshu on October 28, 1707, that may have killed 5, 000 people, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.
Oku-noto no Aenokoto is an agricultural ritual transmitted from generation to generation by the rice farmers of the Noto Peninsula, which projects from Ishikawa prefecture in the centre of Japan s main island, Honshu.
That is the hope of some who want Tohoku, Honshu's north-eastern region, to become a blueprint for a more harmonious balance between man and nature once the Fukushima nuclear plant stops pouring radioactive bilge into the ocean.
Roughly 30 miles off the coast of Honshu Island in the Pacific Ocean, the Nankai Trough holds an estimated 40 trillion cubic feet of gas hydrates and has received the largest investment and advanced field research of any project in the world.
They have since been pushed into the Sea of Japan by a branch of the warm Kuroshio current that is running much closer to land than usual, and have spread up Japan's west coast and even through the Tsugaru strait between Japan's main island, Honshu, and northern Hokkaido into the Pacific Ocean.
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