All households in Hokkaido lost electricity immediately after the earthquake
Source: Twitter on Sept. 6, 2018
Magnitde 6.7 earthquake hit Hokkaido on Sept. 06, 2018 at 3:08 am in local time.
Near 3 million households, all customer of Hokkaido Power, lost electricity immediately after the earthquake.
330,000 households recovered electricity as of 4:00 pm on Sept. 6.
All train operations in Hokkaido was suspended immediately after the quake. JR Hokkaido announces all train operation would be suspended until 12:00 noon of Sept. 7.
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(Following Source: Japan Times as of Sept. 6 in Japan time)
At least seven people are dead and 32 people unaccounted for in Hokkaido after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake — reaching the maximum 7 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale in some areas — caused landslides that engulfed houses early on Thursday,
The quake occurred at a depth of about 40 km and initially logged an upper 6 — later revised to the maximum 7 — on the Japanese seismic intensity scale in the town of Abira and a lower 6 in the city of Chitose.
The Tomari Nuclear Power Station suffered a power outage but external power at the station resumed by 1:00 p.m.
The central government said the Self-Defense Forces will dispatch 25,000 personnel for relief operations at the request of the governor of Hokkaido.
A seismology professor found that there were about three powerful shaking movements in a short period of time.
