A 5.8-magnitude earthquake, with a depth of about 50 kilometers, struck off the coast of Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture at 0:14 a.m. Friday (15), with no tsunami warning issued by the authorities. The Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear power plants also manually suspended the discharge of nuclear wastewater at 0:33 a.m. No abnormalities have been detected.
In Fukushima Prefecture, the magnitude of the quake was 5 weak in Naraha and Kawamata, and 4 weak in Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Tochigi, etc. The Meteorological Agency pointed out that the quake was observed as a “long-period ground shaking” with a long period of shaking, and that rockfalls and landslides may easily occur in areas of severe shaking, and called for caution in the coming week. We urge caution in the coming week against earthquakes with a maximum magnitude of about 5 degrees.
In addition, in order to prevent the earthquake disaster, the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear power plants manually stopped discharging nuclear wastewater at 0:33 a.m. TEPCO said that no abnormality has been found in the two nuclear power plants, and no abnormality has been found in the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and the Tokai Daini nuclear power plant in Ibaraki Prefecture.
