![]() The Tangshan fault’s area Vp, Vs and Vp/Vs values demonstrate obvious inhomogeneity, and high speed bodies prone to the brittle fault are dominant on both sides of the fault in the upper crust. The results revealed that the relocated earthquakes were roughly vertical to the fault’s strike, with the maximum depth exceeding 25 km. “We are doing our utmost in rescue operations and putting people’s lives first,” he said.Based on the 4415 earthquakes body wave arrival times recorded by the 47 fixed and 33 temporary stations in Tangshan and its surrounding areas, the Tangshan fault’s area focal parameters and three-dimensional fine velocity structure model were inversed by using the consistency-constrained double-difference tomography method. He told reporters that the government was assessing the extent of damage and promised to do its utmost for rescue and relief operations.Ĭhief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said authorities were scrambling to assess damage. Many people formed long lines outside of major stations while waiting for trains to resume operation late Wednesday, but trains in Tokyo operated normally Thursday morning.Ī Tohoku Shinkansen express train partially derailed between Fukushima and Miyagi due to the quake, but nobody was injured, Kishida said. The quake shook large parts of eastern Japan, including Tokyo, where buildings swayed violently.Įast Japan Railway Co said most of its train services were suspended for safety checks. More than 2.2m homes were temporarily without electricity in 14 prefectures, including the Tokyo region, but power was restored at most places by the morning, except for some homes in the hardest hit Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures, according to the Tohoku Electric Power Co which services the region. Japan’s Air Self-Defence Force said it sent fighter jets from the Hyakuri base in Ibaraki prefecture, just south of Fukushima, for information gathering and damage assessment. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake hit at 11.36pm at a depth of 60km (36 miles) below the sea. Manufacturers, including global chipmaker Renesas Electronics and automaker Toyota, said they were trying to gauge the potential damage to their facilities in the region. Fukushima Daini, which survived the 2011 tsunami, is also set for decommissioning. Water pumps for the spent fuel cooling pool at two of the four reactors at Fukushima Daini briefly stopped, but later resumed operation. Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority said a fire alarm went off at the turbine building of No 5 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi but there was no actual fire. The Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, which operates the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant where the cooling systems failed after the 2011 disaster, said workers found no abnormalities at the site, which was in the process of being decommissioned. Footage also showed furniture and appliances smashed to the floor at apartments in Fukushima. Roads were cracked and water poured out from pipes underground. NHK footage showed broken walls of a department store building fell to the ground and shards of windows scattered on the street near the main train station in Fukushima city, about 60km (36 miles) from the coastline. Houses and other buildings in darkness in the Toshima ward of Tokyo.
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