A fishing boat under repair at a shipyard was washed away and collided with a patrol boat. Both were unmanned Ehime.

In Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture, where a seismic intensity 4 tremor was observed in an earthquake with the epicenter of Hyuga-nada around 1 am on the 22nd, a fishing boat repaired at a shipyard was found to have been washed away and ran into shallow water. ..

After 1:00 am on the 22nd, it was found that 342 tons of the fishing boat "68th Shinyo Maru", which had been repaired at the Akamatsu Shipyard in Meirin-cho, Uwajima City, was washed away about 200 meters to the opposite bank and was riding on the shallow water.

Before boarding the Shinyo Maru, it collided with the starboard part of the Uwajima Coast Guard patrol boat "Otsukaze" moored at the pier, but no one was on board. , Oil spills and inundations have not been confirmed.

The fishing boat was towed to the original shipyard in the morning to check the situation.

In Uwajima City, a tremor with a seismic intensity of 4 was observed in this earthquake, and the Japan Coast Guard believes that fishing boats were washed away due to this effect.