On a normal day, few people would pay much attention to the old pay phones, brightly colored as they are, that seamlessly blend into the ambience of Japan’s streets.
For sheer spectacle, the sight of about 20,000 silvery sardines swimming freely in a large fish tank at the Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium in Sendai’s Miyagino Ward is hard to beat.
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Students read books in a school library with plastic partitions at a school in Sendai. | KAHOKU SHIMPO
Kahoku Shimpo May 17, 2021
More than a year has passed since the coronavirus pandemic began to hit Sendai, where elementary and junior high schools were forced to close for a period of time last year.
They have since taken a variety of countermeasures against COVID-19 and started the new academic year mostly as scheduled.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
The quake hit at 10:27 a.m. and its focus was off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Some parts of the prefecture recorded intensities as strong as upper 5 on the Japanese scale of 7. The quake was also felt in other parts of the Tohoku region as well as the Kanto region.
No tsunami was triggered by the quake.
The JMA said the focus of the temblor was at a depth of 60 kilometers and its estimated magnitude was 6.6.
Among municipalities in Miyagi Prefecture that recorded intensities of upper 5 were Osaki, Wakuya and Ishinomaki.