On Monday, a triple quake with a magnitude ranging from 5.7 to 7.6 struck the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture shortly after 4 pm local time (7:00 GMT), collapsing buildings and triggering a series of aftershocks.
The death toll from a series of powerful earthquakes that hit Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture on January 1 has reached 48 people. Most deaths were registered in the cities of Suzu (20) and Wajima (19). Dozens of people reportedly received injuries in the prefectures of Ishikawa, Toyama, Niigata, Fukui, and Gifu. The tremors led to buildings collapsing and left more than 32,000 households without power.
The earthquakes hit areas where seven nuclear power plants are located: Ohi, Takahama, Mihama, Tsuruga, Shika, Kashiwazaki Kariwa, and the Fugen prototype plant. No nuclear power plant failures were reported.
The recent earthquake in the Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa was the strongest on the Noto Peninsula since 1885, when records started.
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