May 01, 2021
People wait outside the ticket gates of JR Sendai Station after an earthquake shook the area, halting bullet train lines. courtesy Kyodo
TOKYO A magnitude-6.8 earthquake rattled northeastern Japan on Saturday, DPA quoted the country s authorities as saying. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property.
The Meteorological Agency did not issue a tsunami warning. The quake occurred at 10:27 am (0127 GMT) with an epicenter off the coast of Miyagi prefecture at a depth of 60 kilometers, the agency said.
The earthquake that also measured a strong 5 on the shindo (intensity) scale struck off Japan’s northeastern coast, Japanese and US authorities said.
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Screens display the suspension of operations of the Tohoku Shinkansen Line at JR Tokyo Station in the capital on Feb. 14. | AFP-JIJI
KYODO Feb 20, 2021
Sendai – Bullet train services disrupted in the wake of a powerful earthquake that struck the Tohoku region last weekend will be mostly resumed from the first train on Wednesday, operator East Japan Railway Co. has said.
The resumption will come 10 days after the magnitude-7.3 temblor, which struck at 11:07 p.m. Feb. 13, damaged electricity poles and bridges on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line connecting the region with Tokyo.
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A man works in a dedicated workspace on a Tohoku Shinkansen traveling near Saitama Prefecture on Feb. 1. (Yuta Ichijo)
Like other passengers, a 43-year-old male company executive from Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward usually avoids working when he is riding a bullet train out of fear of bothering others around him.
But on a special office carriage now being tested on East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) Shinkansen, the man can peck away at his keyboard to his heart s delight.
“I hesitate to make noise by hitting my laptop keys on ordinary cars out of consideration to other passengers, so the office carriages appear to make things easier,” he said.