Japan told to stay vigilant for 鈥榖ig鈥 quake
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Seismologists yesterday warned Japan to stay vigilant for the next 鈥淏ig One鈥 after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of the quake-prone nation, injuring a dozen people.
Buildings swayed for around a minute in Tokyo and its vicinity on Saturday night as the quake struck at a remote spot in the Pacific Ocean around 874 kilometers south of the capital, the US Geological Survey said.
Despite its power, there was no risk of a tsunami as its epicenter was a deep 676 kilometers below the Earth鈥檚 surface, the USGS and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
Twelve people were injured, including a 56-year-old man who broke his ribs, but no one was killed, an official of the Tokyo Fire Department and local media said yesterday.
Some 400 people were trapped at the observation decks of Tokyo Tower as its elevators stopped for more than one hour. Runways at Haneda Airport in Tokyo were closed for about 30 minutes, with trains also temporarily halted, while a football match in the city was briefly suspended. There were no reported anomalies at any of the region鈥檚 mothballed nuclear power plants.
A massive undersea quake that hit in March 2011 sent a tsunami barrelling into Japan鈥檚 northeast coast, killing thousands of people and sending three reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
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