TOKYO: A strong earthquake knocked over partitions and set off scattered fires round metropolitan Osaka in western Japan on Monday morning, killing at least 3 people and injuring dozens.
The Osaka prefectural government's crisis management department said two people have been discovered useless, whilst the Ibaraki town reputable showed a third victim. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said more than 90 have been injured in Osaka and within sight prefectures of Hyogo and Kyoto.
One victim was a Nine-year-old lady knocked down by a concrete wall at her basic college as she walked by. A man in his 80s died in the collapse of a concrete wall in Osaka town. An 84-year-old man in within sight Ibaraki died after a bookshelf fell on most sensible of him at home, according to town officers. Many properties and structures, together with a big health center, have been quickly without energy, though electrical energy was restored at most puts by midafternoon.
The magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck shortly after eight am north of Osaka at a intensity of about 13 kilometres (eight miles), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The strongest shaking was north of Osaka, but the quake rattled massive parts of western Japan, together with Kyoto, the agency said.
The quake knocked over partitions, broke home windows and set off scattered construction fires. It toppled book cabinets in properties and scattered goods on store floors. It additionally cracked roads and broke water pipes, leaving properties without water.
The morning travel was disrupted, as dozens of home flights in and out of Osaka have been grounded, whilst educate and subway service in the Osaka area together with the bullet educate have been suspended to check for injury. Passengers have been seen exiting trains at the tracks between stations. Some subway services began to resume in the afternoon.
The earthquake reminded many in Japan of the magnitude 7.3 Hanshin-Kobe quake in 1995 that killed more than 6,000 in the area. Monday's quake additionally adopted a chain of smaller quakes near Tokyo in contemporary weeks.
A 30-year-old legal professional Jun Kawasaki said the quake reminded him of the Kobe quake 23 years in the past, and began packing up right away to run away.
"It was not as bad as the Kobe quake," he advised the Associated Press from Osaka. His girlfriend ducked down below the desk. Elevators in his office construction have been out of operation. "I used the stairs but I was out of breath by the time I arrived at my office on the 20th floor."
The Osaka prefectural government's crisis management department said two people have been discovered useless, whilst the Ibaraki town reputable showed a third victim. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said more than 90 have been injured in Osaka and within sight prefectures of Hyogo and Kyoto.
One victim was a Nine-year-old lady knocked down by a concrete wall at her basic college as she walked by. A man in his 80s died in the collapse of a concrete wall in Osaka town. An 84-year-old man in within sight Ibaraki died after a bookshelf fell on most sensible of him at home, according to town officers. Many properties and structures, together with a big health center, have been quickly without energy, though electrical energy was restored at most puts by midafternoon.
The magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck shortly after eight am north of Osaka at a intensity of about 13 kilometres (eight miles), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The strongest shaking was north of Osaka, but the quake rattled massive parts of western Japan, together with Kyoto, the agency said.
The quake knocked over partitions, broke home windows and set off scattered construction fires. It toppled book cabinets in properties and scattered goods on store floors. It additionally cracked roads and broke water pipes, leaving properties without water.
The morning travel was disrupted, as dozens of home flights in and out of Osaka have been grounded, whilst educate and subway service in the Osaka area together with the bullet educate have been suspended to check for injury. Passengers have been seen exiting trains at the tracks between stations. Some subway services began to resume in the afternoon.
The earthquake reminded many in Japan of the magnitude 7.3 Hanshin-Kobe quake in 1995 that killed more than 6,000 in the area. Monday's quake additionally adopted a chain of smaller quakes near Tokyo in contemporary weeks.
A 30-year-old legal professional Jun Kawasaki said the quake reminded him of the Kobe quake 23 years in the past, and began packing up right away to run away.
"It was not as bad as the Kobe quake," he advised the Associated Press from Osaka. His girlfriend ducked down below the desk. Elevators in his office construction have been out of operation. "I used the stairs but I was out of breath by the time I arrived at my office on the 20th floor."
Japan: 3 dead, dozens injured by quake in Osaka
![Japan: 3 dead, dozens injured by quake in Osaka]()
Reviewed by Kailash
on
June 18, 2018
Rating:
