\n By Euronews\n<\/p>\n
\n Published on 09\/11\/2025 – 10:54 GMT+1
\n \u2022Updated
\n 13:25\n <\/p>\n
A powerful quake of 6.9 Richter rattled northern Japan Sunday evening, followed by several more temblors, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). <\/p>\n
At first, a tsunami advisory was issued, but it was later called off. Some waves measuring 20 centimetres were recorded in some areas.<\/p>\n
The earthquake hit off the coast of Iwate prefecture at a depth of 10 kilometres below the sea surface, at about 5 pm Japan time. <\/p>\n
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, or any reports of abnormalities at the two nuclear power plants in the area. <\/p>\n
A tsunami of up to 1 meter was expected along the northern coast, and the advisory remained in place for an hour after the initial quake. <\/p>\n
There were no initial reports of injuries or damage following the quake.<\/p>\n
Bullet trains in the area were temporarily delayed, according to the JR East railway operator. The quakes had also caused power shortages, local news reports said. <\/p>\n
Operations were temporarily suspended between Sendai and Shin-Aomori train stations as the Tohoku Shinkansen briefly lost power, according to East Japan Railway.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, no abnormalities were reported at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture.<\/p>\n
Similar or stronger quakes could occur in the coming days<\/p>\n
A JMA official said at a news conference Sunday evening that earthquakes of similar or even stronger intensity could occur in the next few days.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi posted a message on her X account, urging people to move away from the coast and remain on alert for aftershocks and tsunami waves that could hit the area.<\/p>\n
Tsunami waves that follow earthquakes can continue for a few hours afterwards, hitting the coast repeatedly, and may grow larger over time. More quakes, which could be aftershocks, were also continuing in Iwate Prefecture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Euronews Published on 09\/11\/2025 – 10:54 GMT+1 \u2022Updated 13:25 A powerful quake of 6.9 Richter rattled northern Japan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9989,43,941,148281,44,41,39,42,40,9990],"class_list":{"0":"post-273677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-earthquake","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-japan","11":"tag-natural-catastrophe","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-tsunami"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}