Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – February 14, 2021 – International News
One of the branches of the Shinkansen high-speed trains, which connect northeastern and northern Japan, was damaged by a powerful earthquake on Saturday. This was announced on Sunday by the operator JR East.
It is noted that it may take about 10 days to resume traffic in this direction.
A powerful earthquake shook the Pacific Ocean northeast of Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture on Saturday night. Initially announced by the National Meteorological Administration, the magnitude was 7.1, but later it was increased to 7.3. The National Meteorological Administration warns that aftershocks can occur during the week, so far there have been more than 20. The earthquake, according to Japanese seismologists, was the aftershock of the March 11, 2011 earthquake.
There were also reports that a small amount of water splashed from spent nuclear fuel storage pools at the fifth and sixth reactors of the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant and the first reactor of the Fukushima-2 nuclear power plant during Saturday’s earthquake. in northeastern Japan.
Read also: Several Earthquakes of Magnitude Above 4 Hit Spain!
