TOKYO — Authorities in Japan urged people to avoid hoarding as anxiety over a possible megaquake triggered on Saturday a spike in demand for disaster kits and daily necessities.
In its first such advisory, the East Asian country's weather agency said a huge earthquake was more likely in the aftermath of a magnitude-7.1 jolt in the south on Thursday, leaving 14 people injured.At a supermarket in the capital Tokyo on Saturday, a sign was put up apologizing to customers for shortages of certain products it attributed to 'quake-related media reports.
'Some retailers along the Pacific coastline also reported similar disaster-related supplies in high demand, local media reports said.The advisory concerns the Nankai Trough 'subduction zone' between two tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean, where massive earthquakes have hit in the past.
To Megaquake-Fearing Citizens: Avoid Panic-Buying
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