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Japanese Cat Dives for Cover During Powerful Earthquake

A Japanese cat in Ibaraki Prefecture dove for cover when a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan on March 16. According to the https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us6000h518&extent=5.00339,71.45508&extent=63.23363,212.08008 US Geological Survey , the 7.3-magnitude earthquake was preceded about two minutes before by a smaller 6.4-magnitude earthquake, also off the coast. Japan's https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/tsunami/index.html?lang=en meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for Miyagi and Fukushima on Wednesday evening. Shaking was also felt by residents in Tokyo. This video was recorded by Takaaki Kobayashi in Sakai, northeast of Tokyo, and was originally posted to https://twitter.com/takachinTV777/status/1504106246424915974 Twitter . Kobayashi told Storyful he and his 3-year-old cat, named Rai, have experienced several earthquakes. The video shows Rai jumping from a shaking cat tree and scurrying around the apartment. (Footage by @therescuedboys/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)
A Japanese cat in Ibaraki Prefecture dove for cover when a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan on March 16. According to the https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us6000h518&extent=5.00339,71.45508&extent=63.23363,212.08008 US Geological Survey , the 7.3-magnitude earthquake was preceded about two minutes before by a smaller 6.4-magnitude earthquake, also off the coast. Japan's https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/tsunami/index.html?lang=en meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for Miyagi and Fukushima on Wednesday evening. Shaking was also felt by residents in Tokyo. This video was recorded by Takaaki Kobayashi in Sakai, northeast of Tokyo, and was originally posted to https://twitter.com/takachinTV777/status/1504106246424915974 Twitter . Kobayashi told Storyful he and his 3-year-old cat, named Rai, have experienced several earthquakes. The video shows Rai jumping from a shaking cat tree and scurrying around the apartment. (Footage by @therescuedboys/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)
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Storyful
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1386879828
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Storyful
Date created:
March 16, 2022
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Clip length:
00:01:00:16
Location:
Sakai, Ibaraki, Japan
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MPEG-4 8-bit H.264 HD 720x1280 29.97p
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Storyful
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269905