strong earthquake tremors

Tokyo. Strong earthquake tremors were felt in Japan’s capital Tokyo on Wednesday. According to the National Center for Seismology, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck 297 km northeast of Tokyo, Japan, at around 8.06 pm tonight. A tsunami advisory was issued for some parts of the northeast coast after the earthquake of such a high intensity. Apart from Japan, tremors of about 5.2 magnitude earthquake were also felt in Ladakh in India.

According to the information received so far, the earthquake was centered at a depth of 60 kilometers off the coast of Fukushima region of Japan and soon after 11:36 pm local time, a warning for a tsunami wave of one meter was issued for parts of the northeast coast. Is.

No loss of life or property has been reported in this earthquake so far. However, the electricity supply of about two million homes has been disrupted, of which 7 lakh are in Tokyo only. Tepco, an electricity supplier in Tokyo, gave this information.

Tepco said in a tweet that it is investigating operations at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant, which was melted down 11 years ago after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.

Japan is considered very active in terms of earthquakes. In particular, the region is part of northern Japan, which was devastated by a devastating nine-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Nuclear disaster was also caused due to earthquake. The earthquake on March 11, 2011, was very deadly, in which more than 18,500 people went missing or died.