According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the earthquake occurred at 8:58 a.m. on May 14 (local time), with the epicenter located at 37.7 degrees north latitude and 141.8 degrees east longitude. 40 km. The magnitude of this earthquake corresponds to level 4 of the 7 earthquake scale of Fukushima Prefecture.
Located more than 300 km northeast of Tokyo, Fukushima is one of three localities heavily damaged in the earthquake and tsunami disaster in March 2011. The disaster also caused the world's worst nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the Pacific coast since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in Ukraine in 1986. A total of 15,899 People were killed, 2,529 people were missing and about 470,000 people were displaced in this earthquake and tsunami disaster.