A police officer controls traffic during a power outage following an earthquake in Tokyo, Japan. Archive photoTOKYO, March 17 There was no information about Russian citizens injured in a powerful earthquake in Japan, RIA Novosti was told at the Russian embassy in Tokyo. «There is no information,» the diplomatic mission said. March in the northeast of Japan at 23.36 local time (17.36 Moscow time). Its magnitude was originally estimated at 7.3, but was then revised to 7.4. The source lay at a depth of 57 kilometers in the Pacific Ocean near Fukushima Prefecture. Immediately after the earthquake, a tsunami threat was declared. Waves up to 20-30 centimeters high reached the coast of Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. The tsunami threat was completely removed by 0500 March 17 local time (2300 March 16 Moscow time). As of 09:00 Thursday, the region has experienced 20 repeated earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 2.5. According to the latest data, at least two people were killed and at least 135 people were injured in the earthquake.
In Japan, the operation of the cooling system at the Fukushima-2 nuclear power plant was restored
