A robust earthquake has struck off the coast of southwestern Japan – with stories of energy outages in components of Taiwan.
Tsunami warnings have been issued after the quake – which had an estimated magnitude of seven.5 – with residents in coastal areas of Okinawa urged to evacuate.
The primary wave of a tsunami is believed to have already struck two of Japan’s southern islands – with waves of as much as three metres anticipated to succeed in massive areas of the southwestern coast.
Japan’s meteorological company described the quake as very shallow, which may trigger larger injury.
Tv footage confirmed some buildings within the jap metropolis of Hualien had collapsed, with Taiwan media reporting that some individuals have been trapped inside.
About 20% of the world’s most critical quakes occur in Japan, which is without doubt one of the world’s most seismically lively areas.
A magnitude 9 earthquake in March 2011 was the strongest within the nation’s historical past – triggering a large tsunami and the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
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