The country's main meteorological agency specified the details of the seismic event.
According to the agency, the magnitude of the earthquake was 6.1. Underground shocks apparatus recorded near the coastline of the northern coast of Japan, in the area of Iwate prefecture.
The first vibrations of the Earth's crust were registered at 04.24 on M.V. April 2, 2024 (22.24 Moscow time on April 1, 2024). The hypocenter of the earthquake lay at a depth of 80 km underground.
Authorities did not declare a tsunami threat. Also emergency services of Japan did not record information about victims, victims and destruction of industrial or infrastructure facilities. The situation is under control of specialized agencies.
Also against the background of the seismic event there were no failures in the work of Japanese nuclear power plants.
Earlier, an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.0 was registered in the south of Sakhalin, no casualties or damage.