The Hsinchu-based company said it has an emergency mechanism that automatically does so when an earthquake of magnitude 4 or greater is detected.
By their reckoning, there was a 99% chance of an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 occurring off the Miyagi coast, and a 90% chance of one off Ibaraki prefecture, within the next 30 years.
Exercise IOWave11 re-enacted the 26 December 2004 earthquake event, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.
On Wednesday, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Honshu, the country's meteorological agency said.
In 1996, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the city of Kobe, killing over 6, 400 people.
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The Yao Foundation was established in 2008 in response to the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Sichuan province.
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The blackout comes two weeks after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country, killing more than 500 people.
More than a year has passed since the devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Chile in February 2010.
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Chile endured two more strong aftershocks Friday -- the first a 6.0-magnitude earthquake and the other 6.6.
It registered as a 2.1-magnitude earthquake on the U.S. Geological Survey website.
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In January 2010, Mann was one of the first reporters to reach Port-au-Prince, Haiti following the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami February 27 killed more than 500 people and affected up to 2 million.
When the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit southwest China on May 12, 2008, Beichuan county was among the hardest hit.
At least 65 people have been killed and hundreds injured after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit the city at lunchtime.
On March 11, Japan was hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and later bombarded by a 45 foot tall tsunami.
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In 2010, the team helped rescue more than 100 people after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck Haiti.
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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In a devastating 90 seconds the 8.8-magnitude earthquake killed close to 500 people and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
On April 9th a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit southern Iran, near the Bushehr nuclear-power plant, killing 37 people and injuring more than 800.
Seismic activity was detected in North Korea this evening that the United States Geological Survey registered as a 5.1 magnitude earthquake.
Lincolnshire firefighters were part of the rescue effort in Japan following last year's 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in the coastal town of Ofunato.
In January he announced he would donate millions to help fix the Washington Monument after it was damaged during the 5.8 magnitude earthquake.
Russia has been busy helping Japan recover from its March 11 natural disaster, when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the main island of Japan.
Dr Melnick explained that to predict an earthquake's magnitude, seismologists multiply plate convergence rate by the number of years since the last great event.
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On October 27, a tsunami was spawned by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck 86 miles south of Masset on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands.
The quake led many to revive their memories of 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake spawned a massive tsunami that killed 230, 000 people in 12 countries.
The quake measured by China's earthquake administration at magnitude 7.0 and by the U.S. Geological Survey at 6.6 struck shortly after 8 a.m.
Experts said Iran was spared from massive casualties and damages that could typically result from an earthquake of this magnitude because of geography and geophysics.
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