The tremor was recorded at 11:30 p.m. today (noon in Argentina) off the coast of the Fukushima region, 60 kilometers deep, and gave rise to a tsunami warning with waves of up to one meter in the region. northeast, said the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA).
So far, no victims or material damage have been reported, apart from a power outage that affected two million homes, 700,000 of them in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, said the energy company Tepco, according to the news agency. AFP.
The company indicated through its Twitter account that it is supervising the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which collapsed eleven years ago after being hit by a tsunami that left 18,500 dead and missing.
“Fukushima Daiichi: no anomaly,” Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority said in a brief statement later.
The tremor was recorded on Wednesday night off the coast of the Fukushima region, 60 km deep, and gave rise to a tsunami alert with waves of up to one meter in the northeastern region, said the Japanese Meteorological Agency ( JMA).
The Japanese archipelago is located in the so-called “Ring of Fire” of the Pacific, an arc of intense seismic activity where tectonic plates collide, which extends through Southeast Asia and the Pacific basin.
Source: Ambito
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