Rescuers are searching for survivors and trying to restore power after a powerful earthquake hit the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Rescuers are searching for survivors and trying to restore power after a powerful earthquake hit the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Video cameras showed cities going dark as the quake disabled power systems, leaving nearly three million households on the island without electricity. The island’s only nuclear power plant, which was offline, switched to a back-up generator to keep its spent fuel cool, and nuclear regulators said there was no sign of abnormal radiation. However, damage to generators at the Tomato Atsuma plant meant that the restoration of power could take more than a week, Mr Seko said.

Source: Irish Independent September 06, 2018 07:41 UTC