The number of people who were injured as a result of the 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on Saturday has reached 124, the Japanese public television said on Sunday.
Earlier reports said 103 people were injured. The majority of casualties were reported in the prefectures of Miyagi and Fukushima on the eastern coast of Japan’s largest island of Honshu, which bore the brunt of the disaster. Most of the victims were diagnosed with bruises and blunt traumas sustained during falls.
Meanwhile, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), a Japanese electric utility holding company operating in the quake-hit area, said that as a result of the earthquake, a small amount of water spilled from pools storing spent nuclear fuel at Units 5 and 6 of the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant.
The amount of water was insignificant and caused no serious changes in background radiation levels at the plant. It posed no threat to safety of Japan’s nuclear facilities. Earlier, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the country’s nuclear facilities had sustained no damage in the disaster...
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Magnitude Mw 7.1
Region NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Date time 2021-02-13 14:07:52.1 UTC
Location 37.74 N ; 141.64 E
Depth 60 km
Distances:
63 km NE of Namie, Japan / pop: 21,800 / local time: 23:07:52.1 2021-02-13
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