Follow-Up: More Than 20 Injured in Magnitude 5.7 Quake in Western Shizuoka; Intensity Upper 5 Recorded in Chita, Aichi
Tokyo — More than 20 people were injured in a magnitude 5.7 earthquake that struck western Shizuoka Prefecture at 1:04 a.m. on November 8, Kyodo News reported. The injured were in Aichi and Shizuoka prefectures, some of them hurt in falls while evacuating. The Japan Meteorological Agency put the depth at about 40 kilometres and said there was no tsunami risk.
The strongest shaking, an upper 5 on Japan's seismic intensity scale, was recorded in Chita, Aichi Prefecture; Nagoya's fire department said 13 people were taken to hospital in that city alone. The agency said an upper 5 in Aichi was the first since a magnitude 5.9 quake in eastern Aichi in March 1997, about 30 years ago. It added that the quake originated inside the subducting Philippine Sea Plate, a different mechanism from a Nankai Trough plate-boundary megaquake, and that the possibility of a link to such a megaquake was "low."
No abnormalities were reported at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka. The Tokaido Shinkansen temporarily ran at reduced speed between Shizuoka and Gifu-Hashima stations, and some local rail services in Aichi were briefly suspended. The government set up a liaison office to coordinate the response, and the agency urged caution against further shaking of similar strength for about a week.
GSM published an initial report on the quake's magnitude, epicentre and the absence of a tsunami warning; this follow-up covers the casualties and wider impact. (Source: Kyodo News)
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Source: Kyodo News
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Photo: 图：震中附近的静冈县滨松市滨北区役所（资料图，本站档案图）。 / Photo: Hamakita Ward Office in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, near the epicentre area (file photo, GSM archive).
