AN earthquake has struck off the east coast of Japan – just 200 miles east of Fukushima nuclear plant.
The tremor is said to have measured above 6.1, according to the US Geographical Society (USGS).
An earthquake has struck off the east coast of Japan
The American scientific agency, which tracks natural disasters around the world, said the quake happened 175 miles from Kamaishi, northern Japan.
But it was also around 200 miles from Fukushima nuclear power plant.
A 50ft tsunami sparked by an earthquake in the Pacific caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
The plant’s power supply was disabled during the catastrophe, preventing the cooling of the nuclear reactors and causing one of them to stop working.
Nearly 500,000 people fled the area and a 12.5 mile exclusion zone was set up.
The Pacific Ocean island is no stranger to natural disasters, with hundreds and thousands of Japanese people having been killed by quakes and tsunamis over the years.
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The quake struck 175 miles from Kamaishi, pictured after a previous disaster
From the notorious Tohoku earthquake which sparked the Fukushima nuclear disasterto the monstrous Great Kanto quake of 1923, the country has a long and tragic history with such catastrophes.
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In fact, Japan has the most recorded earthquakes in the world as it sits on a highly active seismic area.
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