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Quake in Japan kills one and hurts over 170
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Quake in Japan kills one and hurts over 170
A strong earthquake killed one person and injured more than 170 in central Japan yesterday, demolishing houses, buckling roads, triggering landslides and cutting off water supplies to thousands of homes. More than 1,000 people evacuated to shelters after at least 25 houses collapsed and 200 others, mostly wooden with heavy tile roofs, were seriously damaged by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake, which struck at 9:42 a.m., media and officials said. The focus of the quake ? which was also felt in Tokyo ? was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the seabed off the Noto peninsula, about 300 km west of Tokyo. More than 100 aftershocks jolted the area, including one with a magnitude of 5.3 more than eight hours after the first quake, and officials warned more could be in store.
A 52-year-old woman died in Wajima, a resort and fishing town on the western side of the peninsula, after being trapped under a stone lantern that toppled in her garden. Around 1,200 Wajima residents whose homes were damaged were evacuated to schools and community centres and were receiving food and blankets, a city official said.
A tsunami warning issued for Ishikawa prefecture was later lifted after small tsunamis hit in some areas. Separately, two strong earthquakes struck yesterday near Vanuatu in the South Pacific, Australia?s geological agency reported, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The first, measured at magnitude 7.3, occurred two minutes before the quake in central Japan. Vanuatu?s second quake, at magnitude 7.1, came about half an hour later.
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