Tokyo-Sana
Twenty people were injured in the earthquake that struck off the coast of eastern Japan today, with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale, and caused a large-scale power outage in the country.
The Japanese Kyodo Agency said that at least twenty people were injured and that about 950,000 homes were cut off by the earthquake, without the Japan Meteorological Agency issuing any warning of the tsunami.
For its part, the Japan Meteorological Agency indicated that the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.3 and its epicenter was off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, at a depth of 60 kilometers, noting that the earthquake shook homes and offices in the capital, Tokyo, hundreds of kilometers away.
She pointed out that no tsunami warning had been issued.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini power plants, and the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, also announced that the three plants had no defects.
It is noteworthy that Japan is located at the confluence of four tectonic plates and witnesses about twenty percent of the most violent earthquakes in the world every year.