Highly effective 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes off Japan, tsunami alert issued | World Information
1 min learnApr 20, 2026 02:22 PM IST
A robust earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast, and the Japan Meteorological Company issued a tsunami alert within the area.
The quake registering a preliminary magnitude of seven.5 occurred off the coast of Sanriku in northern Japan at round 4:53 p.m. (0753 GMT), at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6 miles) beneath the ocean floor, the company mentioned.Japan’s NHK public tv mentioned a tsunami of as much as 3 meters (10 toes) may hit the world shortly.
It’s 15 years since a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, ravaged elements of northern Japan, prompted greater than 22,000 deaths and compelled practically half 1,000,000 individuals to flee their houses, most of them resulting from tsunami injury.
Some 160,000 individuals fled their houses in Fukushima due to the radiation spewed from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant. About 26,000 of them haven’t returned as a result of they resettled elsewhere, their hometowns stay off-limits or they’ve lingering considerations about radiation.
