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Japan Mistakenly Issues Warning for Strongest Ever Earthquake

Published by New York Times World By Kiuko Notoya and Claire Moses · 16 October 2026 at 17:08

What the report says

Officials on Friday withdrew an alert sent when they believed a 9.9-magnitude earthquake had taken place. In the end, the tremor was hardly felt.

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