At least 20 people have been injured as a result of an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 has been registered this Saturday near the coast of Japan’s Fukushima region in Japan, without a tsunami warning.
Most injuries caused by the earthquake in Japan were caused by falls, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo, which also cites the Japan Nuclear Regulatory Agency, which ensures that it has not received any report of abnormalities at the Fukushima I and Fukushima II nuclear power plants.
The agency has also informed the minus nine aftershocks above magnitude 4 on the Richter scale.
The head of the Japanese government’s cabinet, Katsunobu Kato , has reported that there are some 950, 000 households without supply electric at 23. 30 hours.
Agency M Japan Weather Report has confirmed that there is no tsunami warning, according to Kyodo.
The tremor, recorded specifically at 23. 08 hours, a 90 kilometers from the town of Namie and with a hypocenter at 30 kilometers deep, has been perceived in the country’s capital, Tokyo, where some buildings have vibrated.
For this reason, and despite the fact that at the moment the earthquake does not appear to have caused significant damage, the Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihide Suga, has called an extraordinary meeting of his emergency cabinet.
Following the meeting, the prime minister has ordered the government to carry out an assessment of the earthquake damage, to coordinate the rescue response, if necessary , and to publish the information that may be of interest to the population.
No abnormality has been detected in the central nuclear plant of Tokai, inactive at the moment, as reported by the company responsible for it, Japan Atomic Power Co (JAPC).
Neither does the Tokai nuclear plant has registered any problem during the earthquake and operates normally, according to a statement collected by the Japanese public channel NHK.
The area was the scene in 2011 of the largest natural catastrophe in recent Japanese history, when a magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tidal wave left more than 15. 000 killed and caused an unprecedented radioactive crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
