An unprecedented “super earthquake” warning in Japan canceled Kishida’s foreign trip
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency quoted by Xinhua, after issuing the first super earthquake warning in the “Nankai Teru” region in Japan, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida canceled his pre-planned trip to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia canceled.
Kishida, after attending a ceremony on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the United States, told reporters that he canceled his trip and focused on the government’s response. And he mentioned the release of information about the possibility of this super earthquake.
The Japan Meteorological Agency yesterday issued a super earthquake warning for the first time and warned that the possibility of a powerful earthquake around “Nankai Teru” along the Pacific coast has increased. is.
This warning does not include an evacuation recommendation, but includes a review of preventive measures and preparedness for about a week. The Japan Meteorological Agency issues such a warning when encountering unusual phenomena in Nankai Teru or when the probability of an earthquake increases.
The Japanese government had previously announced that there is a 70-80% chance of an earthquake with a magnitude of 8-9 on the Richter scale along the Nankai Teru within 30 years. According to a government estimate in 2012, such an earthquake will cause a tsunami with a height of more than 30 meters and kill as many as 320,000 people. The first warning was issued a few hours after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake yesterday in Miyazaki.
