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At least four people may have been killed by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan on Thursday night, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said.
According to him, it is also known that at least 97 people received various injuries. The main number of victims as a result of the impact of the elements falls on the prefectures of Fukushima and Miyagi in the northeast of the country, where the tremors were most noticeable.
After the earthquake, the Japanese authorities partially or completely suspended the work of 11 local thermal power plants. According to TASS with reference to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, the power plants that will be affected by the suspension are located in the northeastern prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, as well as in eastern Ibaraki.
It is also reported that the largest Japanese automaker Toyota Motor suspended the work of two of its plants in the prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi.
In turn, the Sakhalin branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that the inhabitants of the Kuril Islands felt the points of an earthquake with a force of three points. No tsunami threat has been declared in the Kuril Islands.
Source: Rosbalt
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