The Japanese capital and its surroundings were rocked by a 5.3-magnitude earthquake this morning, disrupting high-speed rail services, but no tsunami warning was issued. The earthquake was recorded at 09:08 (local time; 02:08 Greek time) in Ibaraki prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, at a depth of about fifty kilometers, the Japan Meteorological and Seismological Agency said. No injuries or damage have been reported so far from the quake, but some high-speed trains, or Shinkansen, running between Tokyo and Koriyama in Fukushima Prefecture (northeast) were halted due to power outages, the Japanese government said. NHK television network. Hiroyuki Sanada, an official at Japan's nuclear safety agency, assured that “no abnormality” had been found at the Tokani Daini nuclear power plant, which has been suspended for safety checks. Japan, on the so-called ring of fire of the Pacific Ocean, is among the countries where many of the strongest earthquakes in the world are recorded. The country […]
Source: News Beast
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