TOKYO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0An earthquake early Sunday rattled eastern Japan, including the Tokyo area, injuring more than 30 people, most of them lightly, officials said. <\/p>\n
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 and its epicenter was in the southern Ibaraki prefecture with a depth of 42 miles. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a preliminary magnitude of 5.8. <\/p>\n
There was no danger of a tsunami.<\/p>\n
At least 37 people were injured in five prefectures in the region \u2014 15 in Tokyo, nine in Saitama, eight in Kanagawa, four in Chiba and one in Ibaraki \u2014 according to prefectural officials and the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.<\/p>\n
Most of them were injured when they fell down or collided with furniture or doors as they were caught off guard by the quake while sleeping and got out of bed in a panic, officials said. Among them was a woman in her 80s who fell off the bed and suffered a serious hip injury in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, the Yomiuri newspaper reported.<\/p>\n
A 23-year-old man told the Asahi newspaper that he felt a vertical jolt seconds after his earthquake alert went off on his phone when he was shopping in Tokyo\u2019s eastern district of Taito. He said he feared getting hit by merchandise that fell from shelves as the building shook.<\/p>\n
The quake caused delays to express trains serving Tokyo and Narita International Airport and other local trains serving northeastern regions, but Shinkansen bullet trains were running normally, according to their operator, East Japan Railway Co. <\/p>\n
The government set up a task force to assess the extent of possible damage, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on X. <\/p>\n
The temblor significantly shook Tokyo. NHK public television showed traffic on roads in nearby cities, including Mito and Saitama, seemingly normal.<\/p>\n
An underground water pipe ruptured in Tokyo\u2019s eastern ward of Koto, with water pouring onto the road, NHK video showed. The pipe has been repaired and the leak stopped. <\/p>\n
There were no reports of anomalies from about a dozen nuclear power plants and other facilities that handle nuclear materials, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said. <\/p>\n
Last month, a magnitude 7.1 quake struck the Kumamoto area on Japan\u2019s southernmost island of Kyushu, killing 38 people and injuring 364. It also destroyed more than 1,500 buildings and damaged nearly 20,000 others.<\/p>\n
Yamaguchi writes for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0An earthquake early Sunday rattled eastern Japan, including the Tokyo area, injuring more than 30 people, most of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50850,8605,8,3276,590,50450,7402,30395,50849,221,7400,4226,25812,7903,52,50395,27075],"class_list":["post-79406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-bed","tag-eastern-japan","tag-japan","tag-japan-earthquake","tag-kanagawa","tag-moderate-earthquake","tag-nhk-public-television","tag-official","tag-other-facility","tag-people","tag-preliminary-magnitude","tag-quake","tag-road","tag-saitama","tag-tokyo","tag-tokyo-area","tag-tokyo-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}