Tsunami waves more than 1.2 meters high hit Ishikawa Prefecture after a strong earthquake off Japan’s west coast on Monday afternoon. Local media gave this information. Hokuriku Electric Power Co. said more than 36,000 homes were facing power outages.
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Tsunami waves more than 1.2 meters high hit Ishikawa Prefecture after a strong earthquake off Japan’s west coast on Monday afternoon. Local media gave this information. According to reports, tsunami waves of 50 centimeters were also reported in Toyama Prefecture on the west coast of Japan at 4:23 pm local time, Xinhua news agency said.
According to NHK, waves could reach five meters and authorities urged people to flee to higher ground or to the top of a nearby building as quickly as possible.
East Japan Railway Company has suspended operations on the Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku Shinkansen lines due to the earthquake, Kyodo News reported. Hokuriku Electric Power Co. said more than 36,000 homes were facing power outages. It said the Japanese government has set up an emergency response office at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo.
Earlier in the day, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a tsunami warning for a wide part of the country’s west coast, including Ishikawa, Fukui, Niigata, Toyama, Yamagata and other prefectures, which witnessed a series of powerful earthquakes. Was. An earthquake measuring up to 7.6 magnitude occurred off the coast of the Sea of Japan in central Japan.
According to the weather agency, the biggest earthquake occurred at 4:10 pm. A maximum of 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale was recorded on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture. It also shook buildings in central Tokyo.
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