SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean Olympic silver medallist pistol shooter Kim Ye-ji, whose cool demeanour and appearance when competing at the Paris Games made her a social media sensation, collapsed at a news conference on Friday, apparently due to stress and exhaustion.
TOKYO: An earthquake off the coast of Japan ’s southern island of Kyushu prompted the government to issue its first-ever warning for a megaquake from an undersea trough running along a swath of the country’s coast.
The precautionary warning system for an increased risk of a quake, implemented in 2019, kicks in when a magnitude-6.8 or larger earthquake strikes an area where megathrusts are expected to occur, or when anomalous shifts in the plates are detected. There were reports of several injuries and limited damage from the magnitude-7.1 earthquake that struck off the coast of Kyushu Thursday . The island is home to Sony Group Corp’s semiconductor factories. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which opened one factory there, is about to open a second one later this year and is considering a third.
Central Japan Railway Co. said its bullet trains are running slower between Tokyo and western Japan until the warning lifts. Japan’s regulatory body said it issued alerts to all nuclear power plants in the nation to take precautions. Electronic component-maker Kyocera Corp said some equipment was damaged at a plant in Kagoshima.
Hiroaki Maruya, a professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, said that companies may take the opportunity to brush off their business continuity plans following the alert, or go through disaster drills.Suntory Holdings Ltd, Suzuki Motor Corp and other companies said they were making checks and were on alert for any further developments.
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