The Japanese government confirmed this Monday that there are six people trapped under the rubble of their homes in the city of Wajima, on the west coast of the center of the country, due to earthquake of magnitude 7.6 The epicenter of which was very close to the city, which led to the activation of tsunami warnings across much of the archipelago.

A spokesman for Executive Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said at a press conference that They sent members of the Self-Defense Forces. (Army) to assist in rescue operations.

In turn, Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said that some 20 military aircraft.

The city of Wajima was hit hardest by the earthquake, which destroyed at least several 30 private houses and a building also appear to have collapsed.This was reported by public broadcaster NHK.

More 32,500 houses Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture was left without electricity after Monday’s powerful earthquake and aftershocks, according to Hokuriku Electric Power.

The earthquake that it was felt even in Tokyooccurred on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture at 16:10 (local time), and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) initially estimated the magnitude of the quake to be 7.4 on the Richter scale. revised the value upward by two tenths.

In the following hours they checked in more than two dozen replicas The JMA warned that further tremors, reaching Level 7 in Japan, are very likely next week.

The earthquake prompted the activation of a warning for waves up to five meters high in Ishikawa Prefecture and waves up to three meters high in Ishikawa Prefecture. Fukui, Toyama, Hyogo, Niigata and Yamagata.

A general tsunami warning was also issued for the entire western coast of Honshu and Hokkaido islands and northern Kyushu island.

The JMA has already lowered the alert level in Ishikawa to waves up to three meters.

EFE