Aichi residents recall unfamiliar shaking as quake damage comes into view

The report documents shattered windows and a school's collapsed glass blocks, while authorities say the earthquake does not establish a direct link to a Nankai Trough megathrust event.

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0:00Higashiura's town hall has roughly 40 cracked or broken windowpanes.
0:45The agency revises the reported epicenter from western Shizuoka to eastern Aichi.
1:28Glass blocks collapsed from an elementary school's second-floor sun hall, prompting a temporary closure.
2:27The report gives Aichi's injury toll as 19, including one person seriously hurt.
4:06Chita residents describe unfamiliar sideways shaking and the strongest tremors they can remember.
5:00The agency says the quake does not establish a direct link to a Nankai Trough megathrust event.

At Higashiura's town hall, roughly 40 windowpanes are cracked or broken. The disaster-prevention chief tells a reporter that, to him, the shaking felt stronger than the recorded intensity suggested.

Japan's Nippon Television News (日テレNEWS) follows the damage and residents' accounts after the late-night November 8 earthquake in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Its report says 22 people were injured across Aichi and neighboring Shizuoka, including 19 in Aichi, one seriously.

Aichi registered upper 5 on Japan's seismic intensity scale for the first time since 1997, according to the report. That scale describes shaking at a particular location, rather than the earthquake's overall magnitude.

In Chita, a resident in their twenties describes unusually violent sideways movement lasting about ten seconds. Another resident, in their sixties, recalls it as the strongest shaking of their life. Their accounts give a human context to footage of shattered dealership windows in Toyohashi and books scattered across a Toyota bookstore's floor.

At Unosato Elementary School in Higashiura, glass blocks fell from the second-floor sun hall to the level below. The school temporarily closed, with reopening planned for the following day. The deputy principal says the fact that the collapse happened outside lesson hours was a fortunate escape.

The report also addresses the question of a larger earthquake. The Japan Meteorological Agency revised the reported epicenter from western Shizuoka to eastern Aichi. Because it lay within the anticipated source region for a Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake, experts convened to assess its significance.

According to the broadcast, the agency concluded that this earthquake could not be said to lead directly to such an event. It nevertheless warned people in the hardest-shaken areas to remain alert for about a week to further earthquakes producing shaking of up to upper 5 intensity.