Japan, Shikoku island, Ehime region, Matsuyama
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 hit southern Japan late on Wednesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency claimed.
The epicentre of the earthquake was the Bungo Channel, a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, the company mentioned, introducing that no tsunami warning had been issued.
Ehime and Kochi prefectures have been strike by the quake with an intensity of 6 on Japan’s 1-7 scale, the JMA mentioned.
No important problems has been claimed so significantly, according to community media studies.
A map from the U.S.G.S. displays location in which a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck southern Japan, 17km from Uwajima, on April 17th, 2024
Source: U.S.G.S.
The Ikata nuclear plant in Ehime prefecture, exactly where a single reactor is in operation, described no irregularities, operator Shikoku Electric Electrical power <9507.T> mentioned, in accordance to public broadcaster NHK.
Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically energetic locations. Japan accounts for about a person-fifth of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or larger.
On March 11, 2011, the northeast coast was struck by a magnitude 9 earthquake, the strongest quake in Japan on history, and a enormous tsunami. Those people activities activated the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl a quarter of a century previously.