A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shakes central Japan and leaves at least twenty people injured

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook central Japan this Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), leaving at least twenty people injured, as well as disruptions to transportation.

The earthquake occurred at 1:04 local time and had its epicenter in the Shizuoka prefecture at a depth of 40 kilometers, without the JMA activating the tsunami warning.

The tremor reached level 5 of the Japanese seismic scale (7 levels and focused on measuring the agitation on the surface and potential damage) in some areas of the prefectures of Aichi, Nagano, Gifu and Shizuoka.

Firefighters and the Aichi Government reported that at least 20 people were injured in the earthquake, none of them seriously, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo.

On the other hand, the Shizuoka prefecture registered three injured people, aged between 30 and 90 years, as can be seen from a statement published on its website.

The Chubu power company reported that it did not detect any anomalies at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant, located in Shizuoka, about 200 kilometers southwest of Tokyo.

Some local train services were affected by the quake, while bullet trains between Shizuoka and Gifu-Hashima stations were delayed for safety checks, the operator said.