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Officials are battling rumours that the incidents are connected to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which began releasing treated wastewater three months ago.

Canada is expected to make an earthquake early-warning system live later in 2024, but one seismologist says it's just one part of the country's preparedness plans.

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in Japan has killed at least six, knocked out power for tens of thousands of homes in the region and forced many to evacuate from coastal areas.

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China imposed a blanket ban on Japanese aquatic products after Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.

A spokesman for China's foreign ministry said it was not aware of the matter when asked about the harassment accusations at a regular briefing on Monday.

The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

Many foreign experts said the release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea will have a negligible impact on the environment and human health.

Japan has said that the water release is safe, but some environmental activists have argued that not all the possible impacts have been studied.

The controversial plan, approved two years ago, has faced criticism from China and local fishing groups, who fear reputational damage and a threat to their livelihood.

A black rockfish caught in the nuclear plant's port contained 18,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium, 180 times over the legal safety limit.

A proposal to dump water into the ocean from a nuclear power plant in Japan that over a decade ago experienced a meltdown has received some resistance.

Japanese officials argue the water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will be treated to legally releasable levels and further diluted with large amounts of seawater.

Officials in Minnesota say a nuclear wastewater leak at the Xcel Energy plant near Minneapolis happened in late November, but the incident wasn't made public until Thursday.

On Wednesday, Canada deployed a disaster assessment team to the earthquake-hit region to determine what additional aid from Canada is needed.

Rescuers pulled several people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings on Friday, some who survived more than 100 hours trapped under crushed concrete in the bitter cold.

In the since-viral video posted to WhatsApp, Boran Kubat filmed himself pinned under debris of his crumbled apartment building in Turkey.

As the earthquake death toll surpasses 23,000, the Turkish Canadian Society has a donation drive this weekend to collect money, medical supplies and winter gear to send to Turkey.

Japan will be the Asian head of government to visit Canada since Ottawa launched its Indo-Pacific strategy last November as Tokyo pushes away from a reliance on China and Russia.

Tokyo reported 5,042 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, its most since the pandemic began as infections surge in the Japanese capital hosting the Olympics.