Japan raises tsunami warning after earthquake of 7.4

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The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) kept the alert in effect for nearly six hours after the earthquake, which was located 25 kilometers deep in the Pacific and about 50 kilometers off the coast of Okuma city (prefecture Of Fukushima), strongly shook the eastern and northeastern region of the archipelago.

Neither the tremor nor the rise of the tide have caused serious damage or seriously injured, according to the NHK and the public broadcaster NHK.

Authorities activated the earthquake at 05.59 local time (20.59 GMT on Monday) the evacuation warning on the coast of Fukushima, before the arrival of a tsunami of up to three meters.

Later he also did it on the coast of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures, and even in an archipelago belonging to Tokyo, before the predictable shaking of a one-meter wave.

The port city of Sendai, the largest in northeastern Japan, recorded the highest rise in sea level, with the arrival of waves of up to 1.40 meters.
Several coastal locations in the region also recorded tsunamis of 30 to 90 centimeters without causing any damage.

Finally, the JMA decided to deactivate the tsunami alert at 12.50 local time (03.50 GMT).

Because of the earthquake, rail services in eastern Japan were partially suspended and there was also a fire at an oil complex in the town of Iwaki in Fukushima prefecture, which was quickly stifled.

The quake also stopped a cooling system pump in a spent fuel pool of the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant, although the operating company, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), was able to activate an auxiliary system about ninety minutes later.

The momentary failure did not generate any type of radioactive emission, according to TEPCO.