The earth shook violently very early this Monday within the north of Japan. And earthquake magnitude 6.1 shook the island of Hokkaido, American and Japanese companies mentioned, after a number of vital tremors in latest days.
The earthquake occurred shortly earlier than 5:30 a.m. (11:30 p.m. in Paris on Sunday) in southern Hokkaido, at a depth of round 80 kilometers, mentioned the Japan Meteorological Company (JMA) and the American Geological Survey (USGS). No alerts tsunami has not been issued.
A earlier earthquake which worries
The inhabitants is low on this area situated some 200 kilometers east of Sapporo however “in areas that skilled sturdy tremors, the hazard of rockfalls and landslides will increase,” mentioned a JMA official. A couple of hours earlier, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred at sea, a number of hundred kilometers south of Hokkaido.
This earthquake particularly comes lower than per week after the JMA warned of an elevated danger of a megaquake (of a magnitude of 8.0 or better), following the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that occurred final Monday off the coast of Iwate prefecture, within the north of the nation.
Some 1,500 tremors per yr in Japan
Six folks had been injured within the earthquake, which shook massive buildings in Tokyo, a number of hundred kilometers from the epicenter. As well as, tsunami waves of 80 centimeters hit a port in Iwate. Subsequently, the JMA declared that “the likelihood of one other main earthquake occurring is comparatively increased than in regular occasions”.
Japan, situated on the junction of 4 main tectonic plates alongside the western fringe of the Pacific “Ring of Hearth”, is likely one of the international locations with the best seismic danger on this planet. The archipelago, which is residence to round 125 million inhabitants, experiences on common round 1,500 tremors per yr, or 18% of earthquakes recorded on this planet.
