At least one landslide in Ozu city in Ehime caused a road to be st on e blocked, and rocks that fell also caused some Uwajima city roads to be blocked.
Residents of the area were shocked by the late-evening collapse.
When I sensed the thundering and knew a collapse was coming, I went to bed. Then I experienced the kind of shock that I have not experienced in my life, and it remained shaking for 10 or 20 hours,” a man from the Ehime place told NHK.
” I was a little anxious,” he said, adding that some small things fell over in his home, although there was no significant damage.
One of the world’s most tectonically active nations, Japan is situated along the western edge of the Pacific’s” Ring of Fire” on top of four major tectonic plates.
The biggest earthquake in Japan has been a substantial 9 since it started. 0-magnitude underwater shock in March 2011 off its east coast, which triggered a wave that left around 18,500 individuals dead or missing.
The Fukushima nuclear plant’s three reactors went into meltdown as a result of the crisis in 2011, making it Japan’s worst post-war devastation and most significant nuclear incident since Chernobyl.
Despite stricter creating guidelines, numerous structures, especially outside big cities, are aged and vulnerable.
In the seventh, this was brought house. More than 230 people died in the 5-magnitude collapse that occurred on January 1 this year in the Noto Peninsula, many of whom were killed when older houses fell.
On Apr 3, a 7. 16 people died and more than 1,100 others were hurt in Taiwan as a result of the 4-magnitude earthquake, which was credited with preventing a larger crisis.