A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck western Japan on Monday afternoon, triggering tsunami alerts as far away as eastern Russia and prompting a warning for residents to evacuate affected coastal areas of Japan as soon as possible. <\/p>\n
The earthquake struck at 4:10 p.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), around 42 kilometers (26 miles) northeast of Anamizu in Ishikawa prefecture, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). <\/p>\n
The Japan Meteorological Agency immediately issued a tsunami warning along coastal regions of western Japan, and the first waves were reported hitting the coast just over 10 minutes later. <\/p>\n
Some of the first reports came from the city of Wajima in Ishikawa prefecture, which saw tsunami waves of around 1.2 meters (3.9 feet) around 4:21 p.m., according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK. No immediate damage was reported. <\/p>\n
A major tsunami warning was in place in the city of Noto in Ishikawa, with waves of around 5 meters expected, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. <\/p>\n
It was the first major tsunami warning to be issued since 2011, according to a spokesman from Ishikawa prefecture\u2019s disaster management agency. <\/p>\n
Under Japan\u2019s tsunami warning system, waves expected less than 1 meter fall under \u201ctsunami advisory,\u201d while those expected above 3 meters fall under \u201ctsunami warning\u201d and waves expected above 5 meters fall under \u201cmajor tsunami warning.\u201d <\/p>\n
In a televised address earlier, Japan\u2019s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi urged people living\u00a0in areas under tsunami warnings to evacuate to higher ground. <\/p>\n
Footage from NHK showed cameras shaking vigorously as waves slammed into the coastline\u00a0when the quake hit Ishikawa prefecture. <\/p>\n
Houses were also rocked by the earthquake, with images showing collapsed roofs and shaken foundations. <\/p>\n
Some services of Japan\u2019s Shinkansen bullet trains were suspended. <\/p>\n
Social media videos showed the aftermath of the quake, with store aisles strewn with goods. One clip filmed from inside a train showed signposts on the platform rocking intensely with the tremor. <\/p>\n
More than 32,500 homes in Ishikawa prefecture were left without power following the quake, according to the Hokuriku Electric Power Company. <\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s Kansai Electric Power Company said in a statement on X that no abnormality had been reported at nuclear plants in the area. <\/p>\n
The powerful quake was followed by a series of strong aftershocks, according to the<\/strong> USGS. <\/p>\n A 6.2 magnitude aftershock at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles) struck at 4:18 p.m. local time around 4 kilometers (2.4 miles) southwest of Anamizu, according to the <\/strong>USGS. <\/p>\n Some 58 kilometers (about 36 miles) away, tremors of 5.2 magnitude were recorded, and another 5.6 magnitude aftershock was reported closer to the initial quake, according to the USGS. <\/p>\n The country\u2019s weather agency warned that powerful aftershocks could continue over the next three days to a week, and cautioned against potential building collapses and landslides. <\/p>\n Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said authorities were working to assess potential damage in affected areas. <\/p>\n \u201cWe have immediately set up the Prime Minister\u2019s Office of Response \u2013 Disaster Counter Measure HQ.\u00a0Putting human lives as priority, we are making every effort to assess damages \u2013 putting forth all efforts in disaster response,\u201d the prime minister wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Monday. <\/p>\n Waves of less than a meter were reported in a number of other areas along Japan\u2019s western coast, including 80 centimeter waves in Toyama city, 40 centimeter waves in Kashiwazaki and Kanazawa port, and 20 centimeter waves in Tobishima island and Sado island. <\/p>\n The South Korean Meteorological Administration said it was watching for possible sea level changes in the east coast areas of Gangneung, Yang Yang and Goseong of Gangwon Province and Pohang City. <\/p>\n A tsunami threat was also declared in the eastern Russian cities of Vladivostok, Nakhodka, and the island of\u00a0Sakhalin \u2013 as the areas face the Sea of Japan \u2013 Russian state media TASS reported. No evacuations have been reported so far. <\/p>\n This is a breaking story. Updates to come.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck western Japan on Monday afternoon, triggering tsunami alerts as far away as eastern Russia and prompting a warning for residents to evacuate affected coastal areas of Japan as soon as possible. The earthquake struck at 4:10 p.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), around 42 kilometers <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Tsunami waves reported<\/h2>\n