The earthquake in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture caused this house to collapse on May 5 in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture. One person was feared dead and buildings were damaged after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 rocked Ishikawa Prefecture on May 5, officials said.
Hirokazu Matsuno, cabinet secretary, said the government has obtained information that the person in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture suffered cardiopulmonary arrest.
Police and fire departments, the Self-Defense Forces and the Japan Coast Guard have been checking on quake damage in the region.
The Cabinet Office will send an investigation team and use all possible methods to rescue disaster victims and analyze the situation, Matsuno said.
He added that he had spoken to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who was en route to Japan, about the quake.
At least two buildings were damaged in the city, according to the Suzu Fire Station.
The ground rumbled for five to seven seconds, an official said. Then the things swayed in the opposite direction for about 30 seconds. The quake was recorded as an upper 6 on the Japanese intensity scale of 7 at 2:42 p.m.
The epicenter was in the Noto area of the prefecture, and the focus was about 10 kilometers deep.
Intensities in the four range were felt in the prefectures of Niigata, Toyama and Fukui.
Japan's Meteorological Agency said there is no risk of a tropical storm.
There were terrible rolling and banging thrusts from underneath for a while, he said. It felt so long. In June 2022, the same area saw a quake at a lower 6 intensity. But the shaking, he said, was stronger and longer this time.
About a dozen sake bottles inside the store were broken into pieces, he said.
When the quake hit, Michi-no - eki Suzu Enden-mura, a roadside station in the city, was packed with about 100 Golden-Week tourists.
A staff member said he instructed visitors in the lobby to drop and cover. After the shaking stopped, the visitors were guided out of the facility.
They were shaken Visibly, the staff member said in a written statement.
Another quake at 2:53 p.m., which had a magnitude of 4.7, shook the region at 10 km deep, and it generated seismic intensities in the 4 range.
West Japan Railway Co. JR West halted operations on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line between Kanazawa and Toyama stations after the first quake.
The other trains in the Hokuriku region were resumed operations at 2:57 p.m.
The flights at Noto Satoyama Airport in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, were operating as scheduled as of 3:20 p.m. U.S. officials said.
Hokuriku Electric Power Co. and the Secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said the utility's Shiga nuclear power plant in the prefecture had no abnormalities.