Japanese authorities raised an alarm this Monday tsunami warning Waves up to five meters on almost the entire western coastline after that Severe earthquake of 7.4 degrees It occurred in the province IshikawaIt is located on the coast of the Maritime Sea, in the center of the island of Honshu, the main island of the country. Japan.
The first waves, approximately 1.20 meters high, reached the city of WajimaAbout 500 kilometers west of Tokyo, around 16:21 local time (7:21 GMT), the public broadcaster NHK activated its emergency programs as presenters shouted at the public to stay away from the shores and call them, according to public broadcaster NHK. take shelter in high places.
Other towns in Ishikawa or Niigata prefectures have already reported tide rises between 540 and 80 centimeters.
Earthquake even felt TokyoIt occurred on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture at 16:10 (7:10 GMT) at a shallow depth and with a magnitude of 7 on the Japanese closed scale, which focuses on the destructive capacity of tremors. in intensity.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) later made the notification. almost twenty copies and warned that further tremors were very likely to occur over the next week, with Japan reaching level 7.
JMA activated and also implemented the alert for waves up to five meters high in Ishikawa Prefecture and waves up to three meters high for Fukui, Toyama, Hyogo, Niigata and Yamagata prefectures. general tsunami warning For the entire west coast of the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido and the north of the island of Kyushu.
Tokyo Electric Power company (TEPCO) reported: Reviews the status of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plantIt is in Niigata prefecture, the world’s largest by generating capacity, but has been offline since 2011, when a powerful earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northeast, killing more than 20,000 people and precipitating the Fukushima atomic accident.
Now no significant damage reported both here and at nuclear power plants in the rest of the country.
Office of the Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio KishidaHe convened a crisis cabinet to manage the situation.
Kishida urged citizens to exercise maximum caution in response to tsunami warnings and asked those in affected areas to evacuate to safe areas.
No information available at this time damage from rising waterHowever, more than 30,000 houses in Ishikawa and 3,600 houses in neighboring Niigata were reported to be in the same situation due to the earthquake and aftershocks.
As a result of the tremors, a large fire broke out in the city of Wajima.
Many roads and highways on the west coast also reported significant damage and remained closed; Images published on social media show that the houses in Ishikawa were completely destroyed.
Moreover Railway services were stopped in the northeast of the country and in the middle and north of the west coast.