Japan: Ahmadiyya Muslims join relief efforts in quake-hit Kumamoto region

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What concerns many in Japan is that the latest damage from last week's quake COULD add to the already volatile exchange rate of the local currency amid slowing global economy.

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By Megan Austin | April 22, 2016

Around 180,000 people are in temporary shelters after two powerful earthquakes rocked Japan on Thursday and Friday, causing huge damage to roads, bridges, and tunnels.

Back-to-back earthquakes this week in Ecuador and Japan have devastated those regions, inflicting heavy loss of life and property. The 40,000 km horseshoe-shaped area that lies on the edge of the Pacific plate is the biggest and therefore most active of the nine tectonic plates that cover the Earth's surface.

Sony Corp. fell the most in more than two months in Tokyo trading as its camera-chip factory on the southern island of Kyushu remained offline following an natural disaster last week that killed 42 people, damaged buildings and derailed a bullet train. But it's also true that the large majority of the world's earthquakes - about 90 percent - occur in the Ring of Fire, per the National Geographic Society.

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What concerns many in Japan is that the latest damage from last week's quake COULD add to the already volatile exchange rate of the local currency amid slowing global economy. Especially so since Karachi is vulnerable to both earthquakes and tsunamis. The quake was first measured at magnitude-8.2.

In the case of the Japanese quake, the New York Times reports, seismologists believe that several magnitude-6 quakes in the same region on the previous day were foreshocks to the Saturday event. As with prior disasters, US carriers are looking to help make reaching out a bit easier for their customers during their time of need, mostly by offering free texts and calls for a specified period to the affected countries. In this instance, that is not what happened since the two countries are thousands of miles apart and the earthquakes were very different in how they took place.

"This seems to be a pretty energetic sequence, and there are lots of large aftershocks", Given told Live Science.

Residents of the area should expect more shaking in the coming days, according to Caruso.

"Many afflicted areas are dark at nighttime due to blackouts, resulting in an increase in the number of theft cases", Yamamura said. "No one can predict that".




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