An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 shook the southern coast of Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings in Tokyo and subway service outage, but causing no major damage or injuries.
TSeismologists today warned Japan to remain vigilant for the next “Big One”, after a strong earthquake of 7.8 magnitude shook the coast of the country prone to earthquakes, injuring a dozen people.
Buildings swayed for about a minute in Tokyo and surroundings Saturday night as the quake occurred at a remote location in the Pacific Ocean about 874 kilometers (542 miles) south of the capital, said the US Geological Survey.
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Despite its power, there was no risk of a tsunami as its epicenter was located 676 kilometers deep below the surface of the Earth, the USGS and the Tsunami Warning Center Pacific she said.
12 people were injured, including a 56-year-old, who broke the ribs, but no one was killed, an official of the Tokyo Fire Department and local media said today.
About 400 people were trapped in the observation platforms Tokyo Tower as its elevatorsstopped for over an hour.
Runways at Haneda Airport in Tokyo were closed for about 30 minutes, with trains were also temporarily detained, while a football match in the city was suspended briefly.
There were reported in any of the nuclear power plants in the region mothballed anomalies.
A strong undersea earthquake sent a tsunami in March 2011 shooting in northeast coast of Japan, killing thousands of people and sending three reactors on the nuclear crisis in Fukushima.
The nuclear disaster, the world’s worst since Chernobyl, displaced tens of thousands of people and left tracts of land uninhabitable, possibly for decades.
Saturday’s quake was the second significant quake Tokyo has experienced in a week, after a much less powerful – but much shallower – earthquake struck near the capital on Monday.
