Tsunami hits Japan’s Miyagi prefecture after powerful 7.3 quake

Get short URL

Published time: December 07, 2012 08:31
Edited time: January 05, 2013 11:51

Screenshot from NHK

Download video (1.6 MB)
Embed

Tags

Japan, Tsunami

Following a 7.3-magnitude quake, a meter-high tsunami struck Japan’s Miyagi prefecture, where the tsunami that triggered the Fukushima nuclear plant crisis hit last year. Authorities reported no damage, radiation levels at Fukushima remain stable.

The earthquake hit 245 kilometers off Japan’s eastern coast at a depth of around 35 kilometers. The tremor prompted a tsunami warning on the Miyagi prefecture, where last year’s devastating quake triggered a tsunami and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The tsunami warning has now been lifted and five people have been taken to hospital in the Miyagi Prefecture with minor injuries.

The US Geological Survey initially put the quake’s strength at 7.4-magnitude, but later revised its estimation, lowering it to 7.3.

An aftershock of 6.2-magnitude struck the eastern coast just minutes after the initial quake.

Japanese media reported how buildings in Tokyo swayed in the ensuing tremors.

Following the tsunami warning, local authorities advised some residents of Miyagi prefecture to evacuate their homes.

A news presenter on Japanese state news channel NHK repeatedly told citizens to flee to safety during live broadcasts.

"Remember last year's quake and tsunami, call on your neighbors and flee to higher ground now!" he said.

In the neighboring prefecture of Fukushima, officials were quick to report that the Daiichi nuclear plant remained stable following the earthquake.

"All workers were ordered to take shelter inside buildings at the Fukushima plant. No abnormalities were confirmed with the radiation monitoring posts at the Fukushima plant. No abnormalities were seen with the water processing facilities,” Tokyo Electric Power Company said in a statement.

In March of last year, the Daiichi plant at Fukushima was the scene of the worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl tragedy in 1986. A 9.0-magnitude quake triggered a massive tsunami, causing damage to the plant that led to multiple meltdowns. Over 15,000 people died and more than 3,200 people went missing.

Radiation levels in Fukushima remain high, contaminating food and water in the area.

Comments (20)

3rdbasegeorge (unregistered) 07.12.2012 22:08

Peasant Intellectualism, the fruit of manipulation! Resurrection Generating Behaviour is the original state of matter, not Karma. If Karma was the original state of matter, the people of the original creator would not have become the evil agent of disease when they crashed the stars/planets together. If Karma was the original state of matter, they would have thought they were already not doing something 'right' to not be producing further evolutions of atmosphere, and they would have churned the existing atmospheres with our dominion of creators/evolutionis ts, flying fish and diving birds. But no naive innocent resurrection generating behaviour was the first state of the universe not Karma.....

Undo

Bookieecon 07.12.2012 17:07

@Danaos. Well, mate, you told me all I need to know about you. Your answer is not sharp. You never apologize for what you say or feel. That is a sign of weakness or doubt. Education is more than creditials of someone else approval.

Undo

Danaos (unregistered) 07.12.2012 16:17

Bookieecon wrote in #18
Danaos (unregistered) wrote in #15
wow... (unregistered) wrote in #14

But this does not changes the fact that they have bad karma. Just like the Turks. Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. Karma has nothing to do with it. Nor the Y2k, Mayan Code and Revelations. The Universe doens't care about you, wow or me. The earthquake would have happen whether we were here or not. Washing your hands and distancing yourself from the suffering of others, well, is very primal behavior. Karma justifies in war, the killing of innocent men,women and children for they bear the sins of their father. Wow is correct in the observation of the writers.
............ .
Pfff... this gets tiring. If you have not the level to comprehend that the employment of word of ''karma'' is metaphorical and has less to do with fate and more to do with the fact that Japanese (like the Turks I mentioned) are people who will provoke less of sympathy among a great part of the world due to their past crimes for which they are not apologizing today and for which they still largely feel proud, then you are in no place to open discussion with me, even so much with false-latin translations of original archaic greek texts you do not comprehend anyway in the first place.

Educat ion has still a long way around the world to fill it up with people of the basic required level to hold up to a discussion. Sorry mate for the sharp answer but that is all about it.

Undo

View all comments (20)