Japan earthquake

2022 - 3 - 16

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Four dead after powerful Japan quake rattles east coast (CNA)

SHIROISHI: Four people were reported dead and more than 100 injured in Japan on Thursday (Mar 17) after a powerful overnight earthquake rattled large parts ...

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Thousands of households without power in north-east Japan after ... (The Straits Times)

Residents queue to fill containers with water from a tanker truck in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, on March 17, 2022. PHOTO: AFP.

"This one felt different (to the 2011 quake), it was huge. The quake, initially measured at magnitude 7.3 but later revised up to 7.4 by the Japan Meteorological Agency, hit at 11.36pm local time just off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at a depth of 60km. The damage was minimal save a few framed pictures and cups that fell, thanks to rails Ms Hoshino had added to shelves to stop bottles from falling in the event of an earthquake. I had to hang on to something to stay upright," said Ms Aoi Hoshino, who owns a bar in Fukushima and had customers when the quake struck. One of her customers shrugged off the initial tremors, but when the biggest one hit he stood up and shouted, "This is a big one!" The temblor revived memories of Japan’s biggest quake, of magnitude 9.1, which struck on March 11, 2011 in the same area and which includes Fukushima prefecture and a nuclear power plant crippled by a tsunami and meltdown.

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At least four killed after 7.4-magnitude quake shakes east Japan (Aljazeera.com)

Dozens reported injured after quake off the coast of Fukushima revives memories of 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

An earlier tsunami warning for the northeast coast was lifted and power had been fully restored to the capital by the early hours of Thursday although people elsewhere remained without power. Tohoku Electric Power, another utility provider, said about 38,500 homes were still without power as of 7.40am local time Thursday. The 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Fukushima region at a depth of 60km just before midnight on Wednesday.

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The quake in the country's north-east rattled Tokyo and briefly cut power to millions of homes.

Powerful earthquake strikes off coast of Fukushima (unknown)

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which operates the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant where the cooling systems failed after the 2011 disaster, said on ...

Matsuno said there had been a number of emergency calls and local authorities were scrambling to assess the damage. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center later said there was no longer a danger of a huge wave, though the Japan Meteorological Agency kept its low-risk advisory in place. A Tohoku Shinkansen express train partially derailed between Fukushima and Miyagi due to the quake, but nobody was injured, NHK said. East Japan Railway Company said most of its train services were suspended for safety checks. The nuclear authority agency later said those problems had been resolved. “Please first take action to save your life,” Kishida tweeted.

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The earthquake struck at 11:36pm local time, triggering a tsunami warning for areas of coastline that include the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant ...

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