<Anchor> On the
night of the 20th, there was a 6.9 earthquake off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture in the northeast of Japan.
An earthquake of similar magnitude occurred more than a month after the earthquake of magnitude 7.3 took place off the coast of Fukushima last month.
This is Yoo Seong-jae's correspondent from Tokyo.
<Reporter> About
6:9 pm yesterday, a earthquake of magnitude 6.9 occurred off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
In this earthquake, in Sendai City and Ishinomaki City in Miyagi Prefecture, the magnitude of the'Five River' was observed, which can destroy buildings such as cracks in walls.
In Fukushima Prefecture and parts of Iwate Prefecture, vibrations of magnitude 5 or higher continued for several minutes.
In addition, a 1m high tsunami warning was issued along the coast of Miyagi Prefecture.
The tsunami was predicted twice every 20 minutes, but the epicenter was 60 km deep, and it was found that there was no damage to the port and the coast.
TEPCO said there were no reports of abnormalities found at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, where the nuclear accident occurred.
However, the operation of the Tohoku Shinkansen was temporarily suspended, and in some areas of Miyagi Prefecture, slopes collapsed, and some households suffered power outages.
Earlier, on the 13th of last month, a 7.3 earthquake took place off the coast of Fukushima, south of Miyagi, killing one person and wounding nearly 150 people.