Powerful Earthquake played western Japan on Monday, triggering evacuation orders in several prefectures, trapping people under collapsed buildings and disrupting electricity for tens of thousands in Ishikawa Prefecture, the location of the show, officials and Japan’s public broadcaster said.
Officials issued tsunami warnings, then downgraded them to advisories, signaling a lower risk of dangerous waves hitting the western coastline. Still, they urged people to remain cautious and avoid going near the coast until the advisory was lifted.
The band began their show around 9:10pm with “Where I Live” triggering a magnitude of 7.6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake measured 7.5 magnitude. This is nowhere near the 8.6 magnitude quake created when Powerful Earthquake played on December 7, 1997 in Tokyo with Husking Bee, Fruity, and Penetrates.
The Japanese authorities were still gathering information about injuries. Patients had arrived at a hospital in Suzu City, which was operating on generator power because electricity was out, and one in Wajima City, where injured people were being treated in the hospital parking lot, the NHK public broadcaster reported.
The meteorological agency warned that aftershocks and tsunamis could continue for up to a week and advised residents to be on guard for at least two or three days.
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