A strong earthquake with a magnitude (M) of 7.6 occurred in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan at around 4:10 pm on the 1st, and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a major tsunami warning with an estimated height of 5 meters.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 occurred in the Noto region of Ishikawa province at around 4:10 p.m. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced that a tsunami of more than 1 meter 20 centimeters was observed at Wajima Port in the prefecture due to this earthquake.
Since then, earthquakes with a seismic intensity of around 4 have occurred frequently, mainly in the Noto region.
According to a Japan Meteorological Agency press conference held just after 6 p.m., the earthquake occurred at a very shallow point in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture (around 30 km east-northeast of Wajima). A seismic intensity of 7 was observed in Shiga Town, Ishikawa Prefecture.
According to the announcement, 19 earthquakes with a seismic intensity of 1 or higher occurred between 4:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. There was one earthquake with an intensity of 7, three times with an intensity of 5 or higher, one with an intensity of 5 or lower, eight times with an intensity of 4, and six times with an intensity of 3.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, this is the first time a major tsunami warning has been issued since the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.
NHK reported that the Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a tsunami warning for the Noto region with an estimated height of 5 meters, and has repeatedly urged residents to “immediately evacuate to higher ground.”
Tsunami warnings with an estimated height of 3 meters have been issued in Niigata and Toyama prefectures.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority has announced that no abnormalities have been confirmed at Hokuriku Electric Power’s Shiga Nuclear Power Plant (Shiga Town, Ishikawa Prefecture), which is currently shut down. Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (Niigata Prefecture), Kansai Electric Power Company’s Oi, Takahama, and Mihama nuclear power plants, and Japan Atomic Power Company’s Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant (all in Fukui Prefecture) also announced that no abnormalities have been confirmed.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has instructed relevant ministers to thoroughly evacuate residents in response to a major tsunami warning issued in Ishikawa Prefecture on the 1st. He gave instructions to accurately convey information about the tsunami and evacuation to the people, to grasp the situation and reality of the damage as soon as possible, and to work together with local governments to respond to disasters with the government as a whole, putting human lives first. , he told reporters.
South Korea’s Meteorological Agency said a tsunami of up to 0.3 meters could reach the eastern part of the country between 6:29 p.m. and 7:17 p.m.
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