As of 7:30 p.m., a handful of people had been lightly injured, according to the public broadcaster NHK. Image A map released by the U.S. Geological Survey showed the epicenter of the earthquake on Saturday. Tokyo Electric Power Company, which maintains the disabled plants in Fukushima, said on Twitter that it was checking for damage there. Another utility, Tohoku Electric, wrote that it was checking the status of a nuclear power facility on Miyagi’s coast. JR East said it had temporarily halted service on part of the high-speed rail system that it operates in the country’s northeast.

Source: New York Times March 20, 2021 10:18 UTC