2024-01-01 15:09:24
The violent earthquakes that occurred on Monday January 1 on the west coast of Japan caused the death of six people, according to the new report communicated by the police to Agence France-Presse. They raised fears of a tragedy similar to that of March 11, 2011, when an tremor followed by a tsunami and a nuclear disaster devastated the east of the archipelago.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) recorded more than fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.2 or greater in the space of four hours on the Noto Peninsula, in the north of Ishikawa Prefecture, which borders the sea from Japan. These earthquakes caused significant damage and were followed by waves of more than one meter in places. The threat of a large tsunami was, however, “widely ruled out” Monday evening, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), an American agency based in Hawaii.
A violent fire ravaged a building in the center of Wajima, a town on the Noto peninsula, in the department of Ishikawa (Central), closest to the epicenter. Rail traffic, particularly that of Shinkansen high-speed trains, is suspended, Japan Railways said. In Kanazawa, capital of Ishikawa prefecture, there is damage to Kenroku-en, the famous garden in the heart of the city. More than 33,000 homes would be without electricity in the prefectures of Ishikawa, Toyama, Niigata and even Shizuoka, south of Tokyo.
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On Twitter, residents posted photos and videos of the shakingof a collapsed ceiling in a shopping center, broken road and become muddy or of damaged floors.
No anomaly in nuclear power plants
Electricity companies have not noted any anomalies in the nuclear power plants built on the coast of the Sea of Japan, starting with those of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa (Niigata prefecture, North), the largest in the world with seven reactors currently shut down, but also that of Shika, in Ishikawa prefecture, which has two reactors also out of service, and that of Fukui and Shimane prefectures, further south. “No radioactive release was detected. The impact of the earthquake on the plant’s facilities is currently under investigation »announced the Hokuriku electricity company, which manages the Shika power station.
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The population is called upon to remain alert in the face of the risk of landslides, collapse of buildings, but also due to successive aftershocks. At 6:12 p.m., there had been twenty-four since the powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake that occurred at 4:06 p.m. Measured at 7, the highest, on the Japanese scale, it would be at the origin of the waves which threaten the coast of the Sea of Japan, from Hokkaido, the large island in the north of the country, to that in the southwest, Kyushu, more than 2,000 kilometers. Small waves were also observed on the coast of the Korean Peninsula and Russia.
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