2024-01-02 08:10:27
Normal state of nuclear power plants
About 33,500 homes were without electricity in the three prefectures of Ishikawa, Toyama and Niigata, all located on the Sea of Japan, according to local electricity suppliers.
Several highways near the epicenters were closed to traffic and high-speed train (shinkansen) traffic between Tokyo and Ishikawa was also interrupted, Japan Railways announced.
Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is one of the countries with the most frequent earthquakes in the world. The archipelago therefore applies extremely strict construction standards, so that buildings are generally resistant to powerful earthquakes, and residents are experienced in these kinds of situations for which they prepare regularly.
But Japan is haunted by the memory of the terrible 9.0 magnitude earthquake followed by a giant tsunami in March 2011 on the northeast coast of the country, a disaster which left some 20,000 dead and missing. This disaster also led to the Fukushima nuclear accident, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986.
No anomalies have been reported so far at the Shika nuclear power plant, located in Ishikawa department, or at other nuclear power plants in the country, government spokesperson Yoshimasa Hayashi assured Monday.
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