7.5-magnitude quake hits North Japan, triggers tsunami alerts
發佈日期: 2026-04-20 20:38
TVB News
A powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast, and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami alerts for the region.
The quake occurred off the coast of Sanriku at around 4.53p.m., at a depth of 10 kilometres below the sea surface, according to the agency.
It's 15 years since a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 destroyed parts of northern Japan, caused more than 22,000 deaths and forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes.
Some 160,000 people fled their homes in Fukushima because of radiation from the tsunami-hit Daiichi nuclear power plant.
About 26,000 of them have not returned because they resettled elsewhere, their hometowns remain off-limits or they have lingering concerns about radiation.
