The area of the incident
In Japan, an earthquake of magnitude of 7.3. This was reported on the website of the U.S. Geological survey.
Tremors were registered on Monday, 21 November at 23:59 GMT. The epicenter was located at sea, about 60 kilometers East of the coastal city of Iwaki. The focus lies at a depth of 10 kilometers.
As RIA Novosti reported with reference to the channel NHK, about 6:30 local time (00:30 GMT) in Eastern Japan on the Pacific coast are expected tsunami height from one to three meters.
The greatest impact is expected in Fukushima, where in 2011 from the earthquake and tsunami accident at the nuclear power plant.
March 11, 2011 was the strongest in the history of the country earthquake. For tremors of a magnitude of 9.1, recorded off the East coast of Honshu island, followed by tsunami. The accident caused the accident at NPP “Fukushima-1” where has failed cooling system of reactors. This has led to breach of containment buildings and radioactive contamination of the terrain. The area around the station has left about 300 thousand inhabitants.