A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook the Miyazaki area, in the southwest of the country, this Monday. They warn of the possible arrival of high waves to the coasts.
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook the area this Monday Miyazaki, southwest of Japan, and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued an alert for the possible arrival of a tsunami up to one meter high to the coasts of the area.
The warning issued by the Japanese Meteorological Agency warns of the possible arrival of a tsunami on the coasts of Miyazaki and Kochi, to the north of it and on the island of Shikoku
Authorities have urged locals not to enter the sea or approach the coast until the alert is lifted, according to the country’s meteorological agency in X.
In Miyazaki the tremor reached level 5 on the Japanese scale, with a maximum of 7 and focused on measuring the agitation on the surface and the affected areas, rather than on the intensity of the tremor.
In most of the southwestern island of Kyushu the earthquake reached level 4 on the Japanese scale.
According to the state broadcaster NHKthe tsunami would have already reached the coasts of the two aforementioned prefectures without significant damage being recorded at the moment.
Likewise, the operators of two nuclear power plants located in the Kagoshima and Ehime prefectures, also in the southwest of the country and affected by a lower intensity earthquake, indicated that they are analyzing whether the facilities suffered any abnormalities.
Japan settles on the call Ring of Fireone of the most active seismic zones in the world, and suffers earthquakes relatively frequentlyso its infrastructure is specially designed to withstand earthquakes.
Source: Ambito
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