{"id":342219,"date":"2025-07-07T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=342219"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:40:10","slug":"tokara-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tokara-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokara Islands\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: In a rare seismic occurrence, over 1,000 earthquakes have struck Japan\u2019s Tokara Islands in the past two weeks, causing widespread fear among residents and triggering evacuation orders.<\/p>\n<h2>About Tokara Islands<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 403px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nippon.com\/en\/ncommon\/contents\/japan-data\/2830799\/2830799.png?resize=403%2C310&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Over 1,000 Earthquakes in Less than Two Weeks Shake Japan\u2019s Southern ...\" width=\"403\" height=\"310\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Nippon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Tokara Islands<\/strong>\u00a0are a remote archipelago located between <strong>Kyushu<\/strong> (southern Japan) and the <strong>Amami Islands<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are also known as the <strong>Toshima Islands.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>12 islands<\/strong> in the Tokara chain, out of which <strong>7 are inhabited<\/strong> and the rest are uninhabited or too rugged for settlement.<\/li>\n<li>From north to south, the inhabited islands are <strong>Kuchinoshima, Nakanoshima, Tairajima, Suwanosejima, Akusekijima, Kodakarajima<\/strong>, and <strong>Takarajima<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kuchinoshima<\/strong> is the northernmost inhabited island and is closest to mainland Kyushu.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nakanoshima<\/strong> is the largest island in both area and population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: In a rare seismic occurrence, over 1,000 earthquakes have struck Japan\u2019s Tokara Islands in the past two weeks, causing widespread fear among residents and triggering evacuation orders. About Tokara Islands The Tokara Islands\u00a0are a remote archipelago located between Kyushu (southern Japan) and the Amami Islands. They are also known as the Toshima Islands. There&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tokara-islands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tokara Islands\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,10503],"class_list":["post-342219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-business-standard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}