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Aichi quake injures dozens; agency sees no Nankai plate change

The predawn shaking scattered bookstore shelves, shattered dealership windows and delayed bullet trains across part of central Japan.

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愛知県で未明に震度5強　南海トラフ想定域も気象庁「プレート特段変化なし」【もっと知りたい！】【グッド！モーニング】(2026年11月8日)

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0:20Fallen books cover a Toyota bookstore's floor, leaving the business unable to operate normally.
0:51Camera footage shows the shaking; Chita records the highest local intensity, upper 5.
1:44The report says at least 29 people were injured in Aichi and Shizuoka.
2:17Dashcam footage and a Chita resident's account describe vehicles rocking from side to side.
2:43The weather agency says the earthquake does not indicate a notable change in Nankai Trough plate locking.
3:23Reduced-speed operation between Shizuoka and Gifu-Hashima causes Tokaido Shinkansen delays from the first trains.

Books cover the floor of a Toyota city bookstore, leaving it unable to operate normally. In Toyohashi, shattered car-dealership windows have sent glass onto the road. These are among the scenes following a strong predawn earthquake in central Japan, with at least 29 people injured in Aichi and Shizuoka prefectures, according to Japan's TV Asahi-operated All-Nippon News Network channel, ANNnewsCH.

The earthquake struck at about 1:04 a.m. on November 8. Chita, in Aichi Prefecture, recorded the strongest shaking, upper 5 on Japan's seismic intensity scale. That scale describes shaking at a particular location, not the earthquake's magnitude. Lower 5 shaking was recorded in Toyota and parts of Shizuoka, Nagano and Gifu prefectures; Nagoya recorded intensity 4.

Footage from a Nagoya television newsroom shows the shaking as it happened. A reporter describes a strong sideways jolt that subsided after roughly ten seconds. In Chita, a resident says cars rocked from side to side as though their steering wheels were being turned, while utility poles swayed. The report says emergency calls included people falling or striking parts of their bodies.

The location raised a further question: the earthquake occurred within the potential source region of a Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake. The trough marks a plate boundary beneath the sea off southwestern Japan, where the Philippine Sea plate descends beneath another plate.

At a briefing shortly after 3 a.m., the Japan Meteorological Agency said this earthquake's size did not indicate a notable change in how the plates along the trough were locked together. The agency's assessment, as presented in the report, was that the event did not point to an immediate Nankai Trough megaquake.

Rail disruption extended into the morning. Tokaido Shinkansen trains were running at reduced speed between Shizuoka and Gifu-Hashima stations, causing delays from the first services of the day.