A 5.6 magnitude Earthquake struck Japan’s Fukushima on Tuesday. The earthquake emanated about 50 kilometers off the coast of Fukushima, which has the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The Japan Meteorological Agency said that there was no risk and hasn’t issued any tsunami warning from the earthquake.
The quake struck at a depth of 42.3 kilometres (26 miles) in the Pacific Ocean 34 kilometres east-northeast of the town of Namie, the US Geological Survey said.
This news brings signals of danger as well as relief to the Japanese natives because Japan has a colossal history of disasters associated with it. Japan sits at the junction of four tectonic plates and experiences a number of relatively violent quakes every year. Thankfully, after this quake, there weren’t any immediate reports of damage or injuries and no abnormalties were detected although some local train services were stopped.
Japan has a massive history of destruction caused by natural disasters and one such incident which traumatised the world was on March 11, 2011, when an earthquake of magnitude 9 activated a mostrous tsunami on the coast of Japan, leading to the world’s worst nuclear disaster. All the reactors in the Fukushima nuclear plant were shut down after the incident.
As for the moment, Japan is out of danger and is surrounded by prayers of safety and solidness.
