A landslide has occurred at a major expressway in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.
An NHK camerawoman reported from a helicopter, "We are over Soma City. You are looking at the Joban Expressway. Embankments have collapsed and covered roads. We can see that guardrails are stuck under the mud."
Tohoku Electric Power Company says around 2,000 households in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures were still without electricity as of 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
Meanwhile, Tokyo Electric Power Company says power has been restored to most of the households in its service area.
Mobile phone carrier NTT Docomo says its service remained limited in some parts of Tochigi, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures as of 1:00 a.m. Sunday, due to blackouts and damage to facilities.
Other mobile carriers -- KDDI, Softbank, and Rakuten Mobile -- say they have found no damage from the earthquake to their telecom facilities.
A landslide has occurred at a major expressway in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.
Police in Miyagi Prefecture say the quake has lifted up about 10 meters of another section of the expressway.
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck northeastern Japan at around 11:07 p.m. on Saturday, local time. No tsunami warning has been issued.
The intensity of the quake registered six-plus on the Japanese scale of zero to seven.
A landslide has occurred at a major expressway in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.
Police in Miyagi Prefecture say the quake has lifted up about 10 meters of another section of the expressway.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says more than 290,000 households in Tokyo and six other prefectures in its service area are without power as of 2:00 a.m. on Sunday.
And Tohoku Electric Power Company says over 60,000 households in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures are blacked out as of 2:00 a.m.
Experts say people should be on the alert for possible outbreaks of infectious diseases at evacuation shelters. They say people should not only worry about the coronavirus but also food poisoning.
Professor Kaku Mitsuo of Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University compiled a list of guidelines for food poisoning and other infectious diseases after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck northeastern Japan at around 11:08 p.m. on Saturday, local time. No tsunami warning has been issued.
The intensity of the quake registered six-plus on the Japanese scale of zero to seven in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures.
A major expressway in northeastern Japan was damaged by the quake late Saturday.
An NHK helicopter crew has confirmed that part of the Joban Expressway in Fukushima Prefecture has been blocked by a landslide.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says it has found no abnormalities with the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear power plants after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says nearly 785,000 households in Tokyo and eight other prefectures in its service area are without power as of 1:00 a.m. on Sunday.
And Tohoku Electric Power Company says around 67,000 households in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures are blacked out as of 1 a.m.
Tohoku Electric Power Company says nearly 70,000 households in Fukushima , Miyagi, and Niigata prefectures are without power as of 0:30 a.m. on Sunday.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says nearly 820,000 households in Tokyo and eight other prefectures in its service area are without power as of midnight between Saturday and Sunday.