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Earthquake jolts Japan’s northeast coast, cuts power in Tokyo

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3 years ago

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Strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 jolts Japan.
Leaves hundreds of thousands of residents in Tokyo without power.
Authorities warn of aftershocks in Fukushima, Miyagi, Yamagata.

TOKYO: A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 jolted Japan’s northeast coast on Wednesday and left hundreds of thousands of residents in Tokyo without power.

The tremor, in the same region devastated by the magnitude 9 temblor 11 years ago that triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster, occurred at a depth of 60 kilometres, 57 kilometres off the coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.

It registered as high as a 6-plus on the Japanese shaking intensity scale in some areas — too strong for people to stand — and rattled buildings in the capital.

The JMA issued a tsunami warning for the region of as high as 1 metre (3.28 ft), with public broadcaster NHK reporting waves of 20 centimetres in some places.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters his government was assessing the extent of any damage after arriving at his office following the tremor, which shook large parts of Japan.

Scattered goods caused by an earthquake are seen at a convenience store in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan March 17, 2022, in this photo taken by Kyodo. — Reuters

Tokyo Electric Power Company said that around 2 million households were without power, including 700,000 in the capital, and that it was checking the condition of reactors at Fukushima and other plants, public broadcaster NHK reported.

No damage had yet been reported at those or at oil refineries on the coast, government officials said.

The radiation leak from the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant was the worst nuclear crisis since the explosion at the Chernobyl facility in Ukraine a quarter of a century earlier.

Authorities warned residents in Fukushima, Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures to expect aftershocks.

Sitting on the boundary of several tectonic plates, Japan experiences around a fifth of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.

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E&P Companies Will Invest $5 Billion in Pakistan’s Petroleum Industry

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24 hours ago

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Over the next three years, local and foreign companies involved in Pakistan’s oil and gas exploration and production sector have shown a strong desire to invest more than $5 billion in the nation’s energy sector.

Recent changes to the Petroleum Policy and the implementation of an exclusive tight gas policy, which provide better incentives and a more investor-friendly regulatory framework, are credited with the increase in investor confidence.

These strategic changes are expected to boost domestic energy production, open up new avenues for growth, and draw large amounts of both domestic and foreign investment.

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PTI Encouraged Chaos and Sabotage: Rana Tanveer

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1 day ago

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According to Rana Tanveer Hussain, the federal minister for food security, PTI encouraged violence, disorder, vandalism, and derogatory language in the nation’s politics.

The Minister told the reporters at Muridke that the founder PTI’s anti-nationalism and sabotage tactics are clear.

After Eid, he claimed, there won’t be any opposition movement since their leaders are still considering

According to the Minister, PTI is a tale of the past with a bleak future.

Additionally, he stated that the PTI has a history of flinging insults on one side and pleading on the other.

Rana Tanveer Hussain stated that the courts, not Trump, ought to determine what the PTI founder done to the nation.

Farmers would profit from the deregulation of commodity prices, especially those of wheat, according to the minister.

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DPM Restates Abundant Support for the Palestinian Cause

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Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar, the country’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, has reiterated Pakistan’s steadfast support for the Palestinian cause.

He made the statement while meeting with his Palestinian counterpart, Dr. Mohammed Mustafa, on the fringes of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Extraordinary Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Ishaq Dar reaffirmed Pakistan’s support for the creation of a viable, contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, based on pre-1967 lines.