Trains were halted on Sunday over a wide part of northeastern Japan after more than 100 people were injured in an earthquake that was apparently a aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck the area in 2011.
The 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck shortly before midnight on Saturday, shattering walls, breaking windows and causing a landslide in Fukushima, the area closest to the epicenter.
The Japanese Meteorological Agency said the quake was reportedly a aftermath of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11, 2011 that caused a tsunami and the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years. The agency warned for several days about aftershocks.
The quake shook buildings in the Japanese capital Tokyo hundreds of miles away.
Although hundreds of thousands of buildings lost electricity just after the earthquake, which occurred at 23:08 local (1408 GMT), power was restored by Sunday morning.
However, several thousand households were left without water, and residents set up with plastic cups to receive water from trucks.
The power outages did not affect the Pfizer Inc COVID-19 vaccines that turned up Friday for vaccinations starting this week, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato told a news conference Sunday morning.
At least 104 people were injured, NHK national television said, including several who sustained fractures, but no deaths were reported.
There were no tsunamis, and no reports of irregularities at nuclear power plants. NHK reported that about 160 ml (5 ounces) of water leaked from a used fuel pool at the Fukushima Dai-Ni reactor, but that it posed no danger.