The Japanese Meteorological Agency reported that a 6-magnitude earthquake struck off the Fukushima region in northeastern Japan on Thursday, without a tsunami warning being issued, and there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries after the earthquake, whose epicenter was at a depth of 40 kilometers and was felt. Tokyo residents, according to the agency.
TEPCO said: Which operates the Fukushima plant, no defects were detected either in the nuclear facility or in the region, and Japan witnesses hundreds of earthquakes every year, although most of them do not cause damage due to the strict building rules that have been in place for decades, and the US Geological Survey estimated the earthquake’s strength at 6.1. degrees, indicating that it occurred at a depth of 40.1 km.
Japan witnessed the strongest earthquake measuring 9 degrees in March 2011 when it struck under the sea off the coast of the northeastern country of Japan. It caused a tsunami that claimed about 18,500 people dead or missing, and that disaster caused the collapse of three reactors at the Fukushima plant, creating the worst disaster in Japan in the post-war period and the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Japan was hit by a strong earthquake on New Year’s Day this year, measuring 7.5 degrees, and it struck the Noto Peninsula, killing more than 230 people, a large number of whom died in the collapse of old buildings.