JAPAN: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi urged residents in strongly shaken areas to remain vigilant for potential aftershocks of similar magnitude following a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, according to Euronews.
The Sunday tremor resulted in dozens of injuries across eastern Japan. Read the full story at Euronews.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported a tremor near Tokyo’s southern Ibaraki Prefecture at 68 km depth with no tsunami threat. Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency noted at least 37 injuries, one serious, and damage to a building in Saitama, while regional trains experienced service disruptions in Tokyo.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi officially confirmed that the seismic tremors reverberated extensively across the metropolitan capital of Tokyo, as well as throughout the neighboring prefectures of Ibaraki, Saitama, and Chiba.
She stated that emergency response authorities were already executing appropriate countermeasures, noting that she had explicitly instructed government officials to swiftly assess the full structural extent of the physical damage and to deliver highly accurate, real-time safety updates to the general public.
Furthermore, Takaichi issued a direct appeal to citizens residing in the specific localities where the ground shaking was most severe, urging them to maintain a heightened state of alertness regarding the imminent possibility of secondary aftershocks hitting a comparable magnitude.
