Oct 16, 2026 · 2 min · 3 segments
Japan's weather agency canceled a mistakenly issued warning of strong seismic shaking from an earthquake off northern Japan on Friday after overestimating the temblor's magnitude as a catastrophic…
I just thought I'd make a very short podcast episode because the news has been talking about it so much, about how today, October 16th, 2026, at around 12:40 past midday, so you know, 20 minutes till 1:00 PM, there was a, an earthquake alert.
Apparently there was going to be a 9.9 magnitude earthquake, only it didn't happen, and eight minutes later it was canceled, and there wasn't one.
Although there was actually one in Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, and it was 6.9 magnitude.
But I-- since everyone's been talking about it, I just thought I'd make a bit of a podcast update.
I just thought I'd make a very short podcast episode because the news has been talking about it so much, about how today, October 16th, 2026, at around 12:40 past midday, so you know, 20 minutes till 1:00 PM, there was a, an earthquake alert.
Apparently there was going to be a 9.9 magnitude earthquake, only it didn't happen, and eight minutes later it was canceled, and there wasn't one.
Although there was actually one in Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, and it was 6.9 magnitude.
But I-- since everyone's been talking about it, I just thought I'd make a bit of a podcast update.
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