Japan has issued a tsunami warning for almost its entire west coast, Bloomberg reports.
The measure was reached after a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 on the Richter scale rocked the Noto Peninsula, about 300 km from Tokyo.
A tsunami with a height of more than one meter hit the city of Wajima. There is another danger tsunami up to 5 meters high to hit Ishikawa Prefecture.
Source: EPA/BGNES
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake hits Japan
No tsunami warning has been issued
Authorities urged people in the areas to flee to higher ground and away from the coast.
The earthquake was strong enough to be felt in Tokyo.
No material damage has been reported so far.
Japan’s nuclear regulator reported that inspects operations at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP на Tokyo Electric Power Company и Shika NPP на Hokuriku Electric Power Company.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi later announced that no anomalies had been recorded at the country’s nuclear power plants.
According to Hokuriku Electric Power Company 36,000 households were left without electricity after the quake.
For its part, South Korea has issued a sea level rise warning off the country’s east coast following the tsunami warning in Japan.
A tsunami warning has also been issued in the eastern Russian cities of Vladivostok and Nakhodka.
The Russian Ministry of Emergencies reported that the west coast of Sakhalin is also at risk of a tsunami after the strong earthquake in Japan. The ministry urged everyone in the coastal area of the Tartar Strait to evacuate.
“We do not expect large, destructive and dangerous waves,” said Tatiana Ivelskaya, head of the tsunami center at the Sakhalin Hydrometeorological Service.
2024-01-01 09:53:21
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