Desk Report
Publish: 16 Mar 2022, 10:23 pm
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A powerful 7.3-magnitude quake jolted east Japan on
Wednesday night, rattling the capital Tokyo and prompting a tsunami advisory
for parts of the northeast coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The quake was centred off the coast of the Fukushima region
at a depth of 60 kilometres and shortly after it hit at 11:36 pm (1436 GMT) an
advisory for tsunami waves of one metre was issued for parts of the coast.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, but
more than two million households were left without power, including 700,000 in
Tokyo, electricity provider TEPCO said.
TEPCO also said in a tweet that it was checking operations
at the Fukushima nuclear plant that went into meltdown 11 years ago after a
huge 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami hit off the eastern coast on March 11,
2011.
Japan sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc
of intense seismic activity that stretches through Southeast Asia and across
the Pacific basin.
The country is regularly hit by quakes, and has strict
construction regulations intended to ensure buildings can withstand strong
tremors.
But it remains haunted by the memory of the 2011 undersea
quake in northeastern Japan that triggered a deadly tsunami and unleashed the Fukushima
nuclear accident.
The tsunami left some 18,500 dead or missing.
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