Image Source : PTI 30 injured in large Japan earthquake
At least 30 folks had been injured after an enormous earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, authorities mentioned on Sunday. The quake which struck late Saturday night time was preliminarily measured with a magnitude of seven.1 and was later revised as much as 7.3, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) mentioned.
The accidents had been reported in Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, Xinhua information company quoted the authorities as saying.
The temblor occurred at 11.08 p.m., with its epicentre at a latitude of 37.7 levels north and a longitude of 141.8 levels east, and at depth of 60 km, in keeping with the JMA.
So far no tsunami warning has been issued.
The quake logged Upper 6 in some components of Fukushima prefecture on the Japanese seismic depth scale which peaks at 7.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato mentioned about 950,000 households had been left with out electrical energy following the sturdy earthquake.
The blackout affected 860,000 houses underneath the world coated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and 90,000 houses underneath Tohoku Electric Power Co., Kato mentioned.
Following the quake, the Japanese authorities arrange a activity drive on the Prime Minister’s Office.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga instructed the federal government to shortly survey the harm from the quake, conduct rescue efforts in areas obligatory, and to relay info to the general public as quickly as attainable.
The quake was additionally felt within the capital Tokyo the place an depth scale of 4 was logged, with many reporting that their homes and furnishings underwent sturdy shaking and a few saying they felt dizzy due to the quake.
Tokyo Electric Power Company mentioned it has discovered no abnormalities with the reactors on the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear energy crops after the quake.
Meanwhile, no abnormality has been discovered at Japan Atomic Power Co.’s inactive Tokai No. 2 nuclear energy plant within the village of Tokai in Ibaraki prefecture, in keeping with the operator.
The quake is believed to be an aftershock of the earthquake that triggered an enormous tsunami in 2011 in the identical space, mentioned Kenji Satake, a professor on the University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute.
“Because (the 2011 quake) was an enormous one with a magnitude of 9.0, it’s not surprising to have an aftershock of this scale 10 years later,” Satake mentioned.
According to the professor, though the quake was comparatively giant in scale with the main focus off Fukushima prefecture, it was unlikely to trigger a tsunami as a result of it had a deep epicentre of about 55 km under the ocean floor.
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