Overview
- The Japan Meteorological Agency said a magnitude 7.5 quake struck at 11:15 p.m. local time off Aomori, shaking reached upper-6 on Japan’s intensity scale in Hachinohe.
- Tsunami waves reached up to 70 centimeters at Kuji in Iwate, and the JMA lifted all tsunami alerts at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
- Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency reported at least 33 people injured, and authorities ordered coastal evacuations overnight.
- Tohoku Shinkansen service was suspended with a resumption targeted later Tuesday; about 800 homes lost power before service was largely restored, hundreds sheltered, and part of New Chitose Airport’s domestic terminal was closed due to ceiling damage.
- Nuclear regulators reported no anomalies at power plants; roughly 450 liters of water spilled from a spent-fuel cooling area at the Rokkasho site without safety concern, and the JMA warned of aftershocks with a slightly elevated short-term risk of a larger quake.