Year of snakes, ladders
As China celebrates the Lunar Year of the Snake, the first angpow (red packet gift) was the DeepSeek AI software that shook Wall Street to the tune of nearly $1 trillion in market capitalization.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 on Monday struck the Japanese prefecture of Ibaraki, just northeast of Tokyo, the country’s weather agency said.
The temblor occurred at 10:07 a.m. local time, measuring 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7, said the Japan Meteorological Agency.
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At a depth of 90 km, the epicentre was located off northern Ibaraki prefecture at a latitude of 36.8 degrees north and a longitude of 140.8 degrees east, Xinhua news agency reported.
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The tremors were felt in central Tokyo, with no tsunami warnings issued.
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