Magnitude 6.2 quake shakes Hokkaido ⁠1%

By AFP-JIJI⁠0%

4/26/2026, 4:09:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Unattributed Quote, and Biased Writer Voice, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 30% saturation with 27 hits. Analysis detected 108 faulty-reasoning hits from 90 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠1% (21,842 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 99.80% of the article peer group.

A strong earthquake rattled Hokkaido early Monday, the U.S. and Japanese meteorological agencies reported, the latest in a series of powerful tremors to hit the island nation. 
The 6.2 magnitude quake struck shortly before 5:30 a.m. in Hokkaido's southern region, at a depth of 83 kilometers, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. 
The quake registered an upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale in the town of Urahoro, Hokkaido, and an lower 5 in the town of Niikappu, also in Hokkaido, according to the JMA. 
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90 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers64%attributed speech32writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 100.0% coverageJapan Meteorological Agency • 24 words • 0.0% coverageJMA • 34 words • 0.0% coverage
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JMA

0%flagged-word coverage
34 attributed words59% of attributed speech84% writer coverage
0%42.5%85.0%Unattributed Quote-84.4 ptsWriter: 84.4%JMA: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-84.4 ptsWriter: 84.4%JMA: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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