At least two people died as a result of the earthquake, which caused significant property damage, the collapse of some buildings that could have trapped people, and a fire.
The Japan Meteorological Agency lowered the tsunami warning Monday evening to a warning hours later earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 that has shaken the west coast of the country and caused at least two deaths and several injuries and objects caused by the collapse of buildings.
Ishikawa Prefecture’s “major tsunami alert” has been changed to a “tsunami warning”, although they have urged the population not to return to their homes in risk areas due to the danger of new earthquakes in the area and therefore they maintain the evacuation advice, Japanese public television NHK reports.
Toshihiro Shimoyama, the Japan Meteorological Agency’s head of earthquake information planning, appeared at a news conference on Monday afternoon to warn that there will be new waves of significant height in the affected areas and that people should therefore stay indoors. high ground until new notice.
There is also a risk of new landslides landslides and subsidence of buildings, which is why Shimoyama has urged the public to remain alert.
The earthquakes could repeat themselves in the coming week, especially during the next two or three days. And at least 25 aftershocks have already been detected, all at a lower intensity than the original.
The earthquake, with a hypocenter about ten kilometers deep, was the most intense of the series of 20 earthquakes recorded near the coast of Ishikawa and neighboring Niigata Prefecture.
The earthquake caused significant material damage, the collapse of some buildings that could trap people, and a fire. In addition, the death of two people has been confirmed in the city Nanaoin the prefecture of Ishikawawho, according to the police, suffered cardiac arrest.
Hospitals in the prefectures of Ishikawa, Niigata, Fukui, Toyama and Gifu have suffered injuries, most from the impact of objects moved during the earthquake. Some of them have fractures.
The city of Kurobe, suffered the worst effects of the earthquake. At least a dozen buildings have collapsed and at least six people are trapped under the rubble, said Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa, the first senior government official to appear before the media.
In addition, firefighters are also battling a major fire declared in the city that is spreading through the Kawaicho district without information about the victims, as reported by the Disaster Prevention Department in a statement collected by ‘Asahi Shimbun’.
Firefighters in Ishikawa’s Wajima town have received more than 50 reports of houses collapsing and have also responded to reports of people trapped in buildings.
The Japanese government has confirmed this About 30,000 homes are without electricity throughout the prefecture, but the nuclear power plants of the area do not appear to have been affected, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa said.
Source: EITB
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