Strong earthquake with tsunami warning attacked Japan

Early this morning (June 23), northeastern Japan was rocked by a new strong earthquake of 6.7 Richter, the US Meteorological and Hydrological Survey said.

The earthquake occurred around 7 am on June 23 (local time - 4 am HN time) off Iwate District, Honshu Island, about 530 km northeast of Tokyo. The epicenter of this earthquake lies in the Pacific Ocean itself, where the 9-magnitude strong earthquake struck a devastating tsunami on March 11, killing tens of thousands of people and missing.

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Kyodo news agency reported that the Japan Meteorological and Hydrology Agency issued a tsunami warning for Iwate County shortly after the earthquake struck. However, the agency said that if there is a tsunami, it will not have great destructive power.

There have been no reports of casualties and deaths in the latest earthquake mentioned above.

A spokesman for the Sakhalin Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami warning for Russia's Easternmost region following the earthquake.

The 9-magnitude earthquake that caused tsunamis on the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 killed more than 15,400 people and pushed hundreds of thousands of people into a homeless situation. Besides, according to the latest statistics released on June 10, there are still 8000 people missing after the double disaster.

Not shocked at the consequences of the double disaster, Japan has to face a new crisis. That is the nuclear crisis and radiation leakage caused by Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was attacked by a tsunami up to 14 meters high.

Currently Japan is still buckling to overcome the tsunami consequences and the Japanese government is trying its best to engrave the incident in Fukushima power plant No. 1.