More than 14,000 people remain evacuated one month after a magnitude-7.6 earthquake hit the Noto Peninsula in central Japan, as local governments rush to prepare temporary housing while logistics continued to be disrupted.
A tsunami measuring about 3 meters high reached the Shika nuclear power plant in Ishikawa Prefecture following a powerful earthquake that shook central Japan last week but caused no major safety problems, its operator says.
The following is an earthquake alert issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency. Day and Time: May 26, 2023, 7:03 p.m. Epicenter: Off China Prefecture. N 35.6, E 140.7
More than 60 percent of municipalities in the northeastern prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi do not plan to relocate their city or town halls despite being designated as areas at risk of flooding in the event of a large-scale tsunami, a Kyodo News survey shows.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 has struck off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, registering a lower 5 on the country's seismic intensity scale of 7, the weather agency says.