Earthquake in Japan: tsunami reported on the coast after the strong earthquake of magnitude 7.3

A tsunami occurred along the coast of Miyagi prefecture, in Japan, after the earthquake of magnitude 7.3 that shook this Wednesday near the prefecture of Fukushima, reported the Meteorological Agency of Japan. The tsunami occurred at 00:29 local time on Thursday.

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Officials from the Japan Meteorological Agency asked people in the affected areas to stay far from the coast.

A earthquake deprived two million homes of electricity, and triggered a tsunami on the northeast coast of the archipelago, official sources reported.

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The earthquake It was recorded at 23:36 local time (14:36 ​​GMT) off the coast of the region of Fukushima60 km deep, and gave rise to a tsunami alert with waves of up to one meter in the northeastern region, said the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA).

So far there are no reports of deaths or injuries or material damage, apart from a power cut that affected two million homes, 700,000 of them in Tokyo, the capital, said the energy company TEPCO.

The Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Japan He indicated shortly after that no anomalies had been detected at the Fukushima plant, which eleven years ago, on March 11, 2011, collapsed when it was hit by a tsunami that left 18,500 dead and missing.

The Japanese archipelago is located in the so-called “Ring of Fire” of the Pacific, an arc of intense seismic activity where tectonic plates collide, which extends through Southeast Asia and the Pacific basin.

With information from AFP

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