Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said four people had died and that the government would be on high alert for the possibility of further strong tremors over the next two to three days.Īt least 107 people were reported injured, several seriously, with 4,300 households also still without water by mid-morning.
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Television footage showed a steep tiled roof crumpled over a parked, crushed car and workers examining cracked highways.Ībout 300 km south of Fukushima, areas of the capital Tokyo lost power immediately after the quake, though most regained it within three hours.īut some 5,775 households serviced by Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc in the northeast remained without electricity as of noon local time 0300 GMT (11am Singapore time) on Thursday, though the firm said it expected most will have supply restored later in the day.
Parts of building facades tumbled into streets in some areas. "For a while my hands wouldn't stop shaking," she said. The damage was minimal save a few framed pictures and cups that fell, thanks to rails Hoshino had added to shelves to stop bottles from falling in the event of an earthquake. One of her customers shrugged off the initial tremors, but when the biggest one hit he stood up and shouted, "This is a big one!" she recalled. I had to hang on to something to stay upright," said Aoi Hoshino, who owns a bar in Fukushima and had customers when the quake struck.
"This one felt different (to the 2011 quake), it was huge. It left a Shinkansen bullet train service indefinitely suspended, and at least one major highway to the region closed for safety checks. The temblor revived memories of Japan's biggest quake, of magnitude 9.1, which struck on Main the same area and which includes Fukushima prefecture and a nuclear power plant crippled by a tsunami and meltdown. TOKYO - Tens of thousands of Japanese households remained without power on Thursday (March 17) morning after a magnitude 7.4 quake struck shortly before midnight, throwing a swathe of northeastern Japan into darkness, severing key transportation links and killing four.Ĭompanies including Toyota Motor Corp and chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp raced to assess the impact, with any supply chain disruption likely to add pressure to strained global output of smartphones, electronics and automobiles.
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