Magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits Japan
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Japanese officials are warning of the spread of fake videos on social media following earthquakes that hit western Japan on Tuesday.
Japan's nuclear watchdog is scrapping the safety screening for two reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant.
Professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist and a former member of a Japanese government panel on nuclear reactor safety, said in 2003 that Hamaoka was “the most dangerous nuclear power station” in Japan because of the potential for an earthquake to trigger a nuclear disaster.