A total of 17,544 events within five different subregions: (SR1) south of Kumamoto city, (SR2) central Kumamoto prefecture, (SR3) Mashiki town region (a part of Kumamoto prefecture), (SR4) the Aso region, and (SR5) Oita region, are shown in Fig. 1.
An intermediate level of governmental services is formed between the central and prefecture levels.
Radiocaesium has been found in all of Japan's prefectures, but is most highly concentrated within an oblong swath that extends about 50km north-west of the plant, and to a lesser extent throughout eastern and central Fukushima Prefecture.
HIROSHIMA, JAPAN — The Hideyo Noguchi Memorial, a small brick building nestled by the limpid waters of Inawashiro Lake in central Fukushima prefecture, is dedicated to the extraordinary life and achievements of the region's most revered son.
Earthquakes local to central Oita prefecture following the triggered earthquake are described as its aftershocks.
Reactors at the Ohi plant in central Fukui prefecture will be switched on in three weeks, officials said.
(Another example for the 2016 M6.6 central Tottori prefecture earthquake is shown in Additional file 1: Fig. S1).
The Mw 7.0 Kumamoto earthquake of April 16, 2016, was accompanied ~30 s later by an M ~6 earthquake in central Oita prefecture, 80 km northeast of the hypocenter of the Kumamoto earthquake.
Therefore, the Hokkaido ISAM for this empirical analysis has an aggregated "local government" of three sectors (local agency of central government, prefecture, and municipality) and "social security funds" for both regions in our comparative analysis of the economic spillover mechanism in Sect. 4.
By the fourth "forecast", 8.6 s after the first trigger, the magnitude was estimated to be 7.2 and seismic intensity was expected to be 5-lower for central Miyagi prefecture (around Sendai city) and the fourth "forecast" was a "warning" to the general public in the Tohoku district.
