Another earthquake shook Japan earlier this morning

World News Rudolph Rodriquez
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An earthquake of 6,1 magnitude shook northeastern Japan earlier today. The authorities have not yet issued a warning for tsunami, as the Meteorological Agency indicates.

According to DPA, it hasn’t yet been reported the existence of any victim or massive damage.

The seismic center of the earthquake that started at 6:23, local time, this morning, was in Fukushima prefecture, as the agency indicated.

On Monday, an earthquake of magnitude 7,4 shook the same region, generating a tsunami with the maximum height of 1,4 meters. The tsunami warning made thousands of residents to abandon their homes.

In March 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 9 and the tsunami it generated after, caused the death of 18,500 people and also the worst atomic accident ever recorded in the history of Japan.

The country finds itself at the convergence of four tectonic plates and it’s hosting 110 active volcanoes, DPA reminds.

Japan Meteorological Agency argues that, despite the differences between this one and the devastating earthquake in 2011, the latest one, that happened on Tuesday, is a replica of the former.

Kenji Satake, an expert on tsunami at the Research Institute of Tokyo University stated that the earthquake mechanisms are different, but the last earthquake can be called a replica.

Tuesday’s tsunami, with a height of one meter, measured near the damaged Fukushima nuclear power station in northeastern Japan, that occurred after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6,9 triggered a vertical crack, that was produced in a block of subaquatic rocks, at a relatively small depth.