7.2 earthquake hits northeastern Japan: authorities issue tsunami warning

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake Ritcher’s open scale rocked northeastern Japan on Saturday, and led Japanese authorities to declare the tsunami warning in Miyagi Prefecture.

The earthquake occurred at 6:09 p.m. local time (9:09 a.m. GMT), with its epicenter in the sea off Miyagi about 60 kilometers deep., as reported by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

This organization also warned against risk of tsunami one meter high in the same prefecture in northeastern Japan.

Japanese television NHK reported a sea rise of about this height recorded minutes after the Miyagi earthquake, as authorities warned that successive tidal waves could occur bigger.

The Miyagi earthquake reached the top 5 on the Japanese scale, with a maximum of 7 and more focused on the affected areas than on the intensity of the earthquake.

In other parts of northeastern Japan, the earthquake was level 5 on this scale, while in the Tokyo metropolitan area, where the tremors were felt strongly, it was level 3.

In Fukushima prefecture, where the damaged nuclear power plant of Fukushima Daiichi, Level 5 has also been reached, and by the time the plant operator analyzes whether the earthquake caused damage, as indicated NHK.

The situation at the Fukushima Daiini plant is also being assessed., which has been inoperative since the nuclear disaster caused by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, as well as other nuclear power plants in the affected areas.

Japanese executive summoned emergency team to gather available information, according to the aforementioned state media.

The epicenter of the earthquake was located in an area close to that at the origin of the magnitude 9.1 earthquake on the Ritcher scale of March 11, 2011, which caused a tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan and triggered the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi.

On February 14, another earthquake of magnitude 7.3 on the Ritcher scale occurred off Fukushima, which JMA experts said could be a replica of the 2011 one and could be followed by others. similar jerks.

(With information from EFE)

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