Videos of the impact soon emerged online. The tremors were felt outside of Fukushima, in areas including Miyagi and Tokyo. The company is in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and said on Wednesday that it was running as normal. on Thursday power had been restored to all households, it said.
Power OutageĪbout 2.1 million people were without electricity by midnight on Wednesday after the initial earthquake caused power generation equipment to shut down, according to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holding, the country's largest electricity provider. He said the deaths were being investigated. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told a parliamentary session on Thursday that four people had died and a further 97 were injured following the earthquake. That earthquake, the biggest the country has experienced and the third largest in the world since 1990, triggered a tsunami and sparked a nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. It struck two minutes after a smaller 6.1 magnitude quake.Ī tsunami warning, which has since been lifted, was triggered for the Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, amid fears the country would witness devastation similar to that following a 9.1 magnitude earthquake in 2011. local time on Wednesday at a depth of 57km, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The earthquake hit off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at 11:36 p.m.
Videos show a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hitting Japan, which killed at least four people, injured dozens more and left millions without power.
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