7 injured as M6.4 Earthquake shakes Fukushima
National Jul. 31, 2011 - 05:30PM JST ( 35 )
TOKYO —
A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off northeast Japan’s Fukushima region, ホーム to a crippled nuclear power plant, early Sunday, but there was no risk of a tsunami, seismologists said.
The tremor at 3:54 a.m. injured seven people but caused no damage to the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which was ravaged によって a 9.0 quake and ensuing tsunami in March, the 火災, 火 and Disaster Management Agency said.
In the city of Hitachinaka, a 60-year-old man broke his wrist when he was jolted off his ベッド によって the tremor, media reports said. Two elderly women, aged 69 and 90, were hurt when they fell over at their homes in Koriyama.
The 日本 Meteorological Agency 発言しました the tremor was presumed to be an aftershock of the March 11 quake.
“Aftershocks of the massive earthquake are still continuing actively,” Akira Nagai, director of earthquake and tsunami monitoring at the agency, told a news conference.
The quake was centred in the Pacific around 100 kilometers south-southeast of Fukushima city, the agency and the U.S. Geological Survey said, at a depth of about 40 kilometers.
The March disaster left もっと見る than 20,000 people dead または missing on the country’s northeast coast, and the damaged nuclear plant leaking radioactive substances from its reactors.
Japan, located at the junction of four tectonic plates, experiences 20 percent of the strongest quakes recorded on Earth each year.
© 2011 AFP
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National Jul. 31, 2011 - 05:30PM JST ( 35 )
TOKYO —
A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off northeast Japan’s Fukushima region, ホーム to a crippled nuclear power plant, early Sunday, but there was no risk of a tsunami, seismologists said.
The tremor at 3:54 a.m. injured seven people but caused no damage to the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which was ravaged によって a 9.0 quake and ensuing tsunami in March, the 火災, 火 and Disaster Management Agency said.
In the city of Hitachinaka, a 60-year-old man broke his wrist when he was jolted off his ベッド によって the tremor, media reports said. Two elderly women, aged 69 and 90, were hurt when they fell over at their homes in Koriyama.
The 日本 Meteorological Agency 発言しました the tremor was presumed to be an aftershock of the March 11 quake.
“Aftershocks of the massive earthquake are still continuing actively,” Akira Nagai, director of earthquake and tsunami monitoring at the agency, told a news conference.
The quake was centred in the Pacific around 100 kilometers south-southeast of Fukushima city, the agency and the U.S. Geological Survey said, at a depth of about 40 kilometers.
The March disaster left もっと見る than 20,000 people dead または missing on the country’s northeast coast, and the damaged nuclear plant leaking radioactive substances from its reactors.
Japan, located at the junction of four tectonic plates, experiences 20 percent of the strongest quakes recorded on Earth each year.
© 2011 AFP
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