Tokyo (AP) — Residents of Fukushima and Miyagi cleaned their homes on Thursday in a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake that shook the northern coast of Japan, broke furniture, cut off electricity, and killed 4 people.
The area was part of an area devastated by a catastrophic 9.0 magnitude earthquake 11 years ago and the subsequent tsunami that caused a nuclear disaster that caused a massive amount of radiation to be emitted, making some areas unable to continue living.
Japanese government minister Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters on Thursday that four people were killed in the earthquake, adding that 107 more people were injured while investigating the cause of the death. Kyodo News reported that a 60-year-old man lost his life in Soma City after falling from the second floor of his home while attempting to evacuate, and another in the 70s suffered a heart attack due to panic.
The Japan Meteorological Agency withdrew the warning that the risk of active tsunamis is low on the coast of Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures in the morning. About 390 km (242 miles) northeast of Tokyo, a 30-centimeter (11-inch) wave from Ishinomaki hit the coast.
The agency also updated the magnitude of the earthquake and the magnitude of the earthquake from the initial 60 km (36 miles) to 56 km (35 miles) to 7.4, instead of the 7.3 originally reported.
Residents of the most affected areas have detected new damage from daylight and began to clean their homes, relocate fallen furniture and appliances, and pick up broken dishes and windows.
At a hotel in Yabuki, Fukushima Prefecture, employees started cleaning because walls were damaged, doors were moved, and bowls were broken.
“I don't know where to start,” said Mineyuki Otake, president of the hotel, to NHK television station.
The images broadcast on the network showed the walls and broken glass of a department store falling on the floor on a street near the central train station in Fukushima City, about 60 km (36 miles) from the coast.Some roads split and water came out of underground pipes.
On Thursday, the Self-Defense Force distributed water to residents of Soma, Itate and other coastal villages in Fukushima due to earthquake damage to the water system.
The image also showed furniture and appliances placed on the floor of the Fukushima apartment.Cosmetics and other goods fell out of the store's closet.In Yokohama, near Tokyo, a pillar of light was about to collapse.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), which operates the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant whose cooling system failed due to a 2011 disaster, revealed that during the dismantling process, workers at the plant detected that some tanks with radioactive water were moved by impact.In addition, what appears to be the life of steel fell from the roof of a No. 4 reactor building without fuel, he added.
Japan's nuclear power regulator reported that a fire alarm was triggered at the turbine building at reactor number 5 in Daiichi, Fukushima, although no fire was detected. Water pumps for fuel cooling tanks at two of the plant's four reactors stopped working for a while, but later resumed operation.Fukushima Daini, who survived the 2011 tsunami, is also dismantled.
Tohoku Electric Power (Tohoku Electric Power Co.) Although services resumed in most places in the morning, with the exception of about 37,000 houses in Fukushima and Miyagi, more than 2.2 million homes were temporarily out of power in 14 prefectures, including the Tokyo area.
Earthquakes were felt in many parts of the eastern part of the country, including Tokyo, where the buildings were swaying violently.
East Japan Railway has stated that most of its trips were suspended due to security checks.Although many people stood in long lines outside a major station waiting for the resumption of operations on Wednesday night, trains were operating normally on Thursday morning in the capital.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that the Tohoku Shinkansen express train partially derailed between Fukushima and Miyagi due to the earthquake, but was injured.
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Associated Press reporter Yuri Kageyama contributed to this office.
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