Friday, March 18, 2011

New aftershock in Japan reached 6.4 degrees Richter

An earthquake measuring 6.4 degrees on the Richter scale occurred on Tuesday southwest of Tokyo in the Shizuoka prefecture, the Meteorological Agency of Japan. The quake occurred at 22:31 local time (13:31 GMT) and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued no tsunami warning, according to NHK. The earthquake measured intensity 6 on the Japanese scale of 7, which measured over the full extent, and could be felt in the Japanese capital with clarity but was centered six miles deep in the province of Shizuoka.

The town where he could feel more strongly the earthquake was in Fujinomiya, at the foot of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka prefecture. Also today there was a strong aftershock of 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale off the coast of Fukushima (northeastern Japan), the province which is the nuclear plant where radiation leaks have been confirmed.

There are already more than 200 the number of replicas of the grave 9 earthquake that occurred last Friday in the northeast of Japan, killing more than 10 000 dead or missing, according to the latest official count.

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