A magnitude 6 earthquake shook a big space of jap Japan this (*6*), with epicenter off the coast of Fukushimawith out the tsunami warning being activated nor any harm ensuing from it having been recorded thus far.
The earthquake befell at 12:16 this (*6*) (5:26 in mainland Spain) and had its epicenter 40 kilometers deep off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture, in the east of the nation, based on the Meteorological Agency. of Japan (JMA).
The tremor reached degree 4 on the Japanese seismic scale (7 ranges and targeted on measuring floor agitation and potential harm) and the similar degree in the neighboring prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi.
The working firm of the broken Fukushima plant, TEPCO stated that it’s reviewing whether or not any issues have occurred in it after the earthquake, based on the state community. NHKwhereas the JR East railway suspended operations of the Tohoku bullet prepare, which connects Tokyo with Sendai attributable to an influence outage.
According to the Tohoku Electric Power firm, no anomaly was detected at the Miyagi Ongawa nuclear energy plant nor in the radiation ranges in the areas near it.
This Thursday’s earthquake in Japan happens after a powerful earthquake hit Taiwan the day earlier than, leaving practically a dozen useless and tons of injured and forcing the activation of a tsunami warning on the islands of the Okinwa archipelago, southwest of Japan.
Japan sits on the so-called Ring of Fire, one in every of the most lively seismic zones in the world, and suffers earthquakes comparatively ceaselesslyso its infrastructure is specifically designed to resist earthquakes.
