TOKYO -- Japan was assessing harm Tuesday and cautioning radical of imaginable aftershocks aft a late-night 7.5 magnitude earthquake caused injuries, airy harm and a tsunami successful Pacific coastal communities.
At slightest 33 radical were injured, 1 seriously, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said. Most of them were deed by falling objects, nationalist broadcaster NHK reported.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told reporters an exigency task unit was formed to urgently measure damage. “We are putting people’s lives archetypal and doing everything we can,” she said.
At a parliamentary league Tuesday, Takaichi pledged the authorities would proceed its utmost effort and reminded radical they person to support their ain lives.
The 7.5 magnitude quake struck astir 11:15 p.m. successful the Pacific Ocean, astir 80 kilometers (50 miles) disconnected the seashore of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan’s main Honshu island. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake astatine 7.6 magnitude and said it occurred 44 kilometers (27 miles) beneath the surface.
A tsunami of up to 70 centimeters (2 feet, 4 inches) was measured successful Kuji larboard successful Iwate prefecture, conscionable southbound of Aomori, and waves up to 50 centimeters struck different communities successful the region, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. NHK reported the waves damaged immoderate oyster rafts.
The bureau lifted each tsunami advisories by 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said astir 800 homes were without energy and Shinkansen slug trains and immoderate section lines were suspended successful parts of the portion successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday. East Japan Railway said it is aiming to resume slug trains successful the portion aboriginal Tuesday.
Power was mostly restored by Tuesday morning, according to the Tohoku Electric Power Co.
About 480 residents sheltered astatine Hachinohe Air Base and 18 defence helicopters were mobilized for a harm assessment, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said.
About 200 passengers were stranded for the nighttime astatine New Chitose Airport successful Hokkaido, NHK reported. Part of a home terminal gathering was unusable Tuesday aft parts of its ceiling cracked and fell to the floor, according to the airdrome operator.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said astir 450 liters (118 gallons) of h2o spilled from a spent substance cooling country astatine the Rokkasho substance reprocessing works successful Aomori, but that its h2o level remained wrong the mean scope and determination was nary information concern. No abnormalities were recovered astatine different atomic powerfulness plants and spent substance retention facilities, the NRA said.
JMA cautioned astir imaginable aftershocks successful the coming days. It said determination is simply a flimsy summation successful hazard of a magnitude 8-level quake and imaginable tsunami occurring on Japan's northeastern seashore from Chiba, conscionable eastbound of Tokyo, to Hokkaido. The bureau urged residents successful 182 municipalities successful the country to show their exigency preparedness successful the coming week, reminding them that the caution is not a prediction of a large one.
Monday's quake occurred conscionable northbound of the coastal portion wherever the magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami successful 2011 killed astir 20,000 radical and destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi atomic powerfulness plant.
“You request to prepare, assuming that a catastrophe similar that could hap again," JMA authoritative Satoshi Harada said.
Smaller aftershocks were continuing Tuesday. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 6.6 and aboriginal a 5.1 quake successful the hours aft the archetypal temblor.
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