Areas under tsunami warning (yellow) after the earthquake
NHK quoted information from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) saying that a strong earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale occurred in Miyazaki province in the southern Kyushu region of this country.
JMA later updated the earthquake’s intensity to 6.9 on the Richter scale with an epicenter 30 km deep, and issued a warning about the possibility of a 1-meter high tsunami in Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures. According to Japan’s earthquake intensity scale, with the highest level being 7, the earthquake had an intensity below 5.
Kyodo News reported that a 20 cm high tsunami was recorded in Miyazaki Prefecture after the earthquake.
Kyushu Electric Power Company said no abnormalities were recorded at the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima Prefecture. Shikoku Electric Power Company also said there were no abnormalities at the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant in western Japan.
Meanwhile, the US Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that the earthquake was 6.8 on the Richter scale with an epicenter 48.9 km deep. The US Tsunami Warning System said there was no tsunami warning after this earthquake.
Also on the evening of January 13, the China Earthquake Network Center (CNEC) recorded an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale in the Dingri area of the Tibet Autonomous Region. CNEC later adjusted its intensity estimate to 4.9 on the Richter scale, according to Reuters.
Previously on January 7, the Dinh Nhat area had a 6.8 magnitude earthquake, killing at least 126 people and injuring 188 people.
