Night cameras capture Aichi earthquake as emergency alerts sound

Footage from Nagoya streets, an airport and a television newsroom records the shaking during the early-hours earthquake in central Japan.

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0:00Separate cameras capture the shaking in Nagoya's Sakae district, at Nagoya Station and around Sasashima.
1:06Chukyo TV newsroom staff stand and check their surroundings as an automated earthquake warning sounds.
1:24The Toyohashi camera records a shaking nighttime view of roads and buildings.
1:47An emergency earthquake announcement sounds over the Nagoya Airport camera footage.
2:20Lake Hamana footage shows distant lights shifting across the frame, followed by a view of Shizuoka city.
3:10The final camera view shows Hamamatsu at night.

Nagoya's illuminated skyline jolts across the frame. Inside a television newsroom, staff rise from their desks and look around as an automated earthquake warning sounds. A compilation from Japan's Nippon Television News (日テレNEWS) captures the earthquake through fixed cameras across Aichi and neighboring Shizuoka prefectures.

Citing the Japan Meteorological Agency, the report says the earthquake struck at about 1:04 a.m. on November 8, with an estimated magnitude of 5.7. Its epicenter was in western Shizuoka, at a depth of about 40 kilometers. The agency said there was no tsunami threat.

Chita, in Aichi Prefecture, registered upper 5 on Japan's seismic intensity scale. Unlike magnitude, which describes an earthquake's overall size, intensity describes the strength of shaking at a particular location.

The recording begins with views of Nagoya's Sakae district, the station's platforms and tracks, and the broad spread of city lights around Sasashima. These are separate camera recordings of the same earthquake, not successive tremors.

Just over a minute into the compilation, the view switches to Chukyo TV's newsroom. Staff stand and move around the floor while the warning tells people that strong shaking is imminent and to secure their safety.

The sequence continues through Toyohashi and Nagoya Airport, where another emergency announcement accompanies the runway lights. Cameras around Lake Hamana and in Shizuoka city capture lights shifting across the frame, before the compilation ends with a nighttime view of Hamamatsu.