{"id":1733,"date":"2025-12-08T18:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:14:24","slug":"major-earthquake-strikes-japans-north-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1733","title":{"rendered":"Major earthquake strikes Japan’s north-east coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Watch: CCTV shows moment earthquake hits Japan<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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A major earthquake of magnitude 7.6 has hit Japan’s north-eastern region.<\/p>\n

The quake occurred at 23:15 (14:15 GMT) at a depth of 50km (31 miles), about 80km off the coast of the Aomori region, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, <\/p>\n

It prompted tsunami warnings which have now been downgraded to advisories, while waves of 40cm (16in) were seen in some places.<\/p>\n

Local media reports that some people in the region have been injured, while trains have been suspended as a precaution.<\/p>\n

Japan is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, with a tremor occurring at least every five minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Orders were issued for about 90,000 residents to evacuate, according to Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

Japanese public broadcaster NHK quoted a hotel employee in Hachinohe as saying a number of people had been injured.<\/p>\n

The government has set up a response office within the prime minister’s crisis management centre and convened an emergency team, chief cabinet secretary Minoru Kihara has said.<\/p>\n

“We are making every effort to assess the damage and implement emergency disaster response measures, including rescue and relief operations,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Japanese TV broadcast mesages which said “Tsunami! Run!” and “Tsunami warning issued for central Hokkaido’s Pacific Coast”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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No irregularities were reported at the Higashidori and Onagawa nuclear power plants as a result of the quake, Tohoku Electric Power said.<\/p>\n

None were detected either at the disabled Fukushima nuclear power station site, the Japanese authorities told the International Atomic Energy Agency.<\/p>\n

Fukushima was damaged when a magnitude 9.0 quake struck off the country’s eastern coast on 11 March 2011.<\/p>\n

That quake, the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, triggered a tsunami which swept over the main island of Honshu, killing more than 18,000 people and wiping entire towns off the map.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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