SAO PAULO, SP (UOL/FOLHAPRESS) – The Tokara archipelago, alerted after registering more than a thousand earthquakes in two weeks.
Sequential tremors – which reached 1,050 – began on June 21. The government has included in the account all those magnitude 1 or higher tremors, and no large damage has been caused so far.
A larger tremor of magnitude 5.5 caused the evacuation of houses on Wednesday (02). Residents of Akuseki’s small island with 89 people were told to leave their homes and focus on a local school playground, considered a safe point.
There is no active tsunami alert so far. The strongest tremor of this sequence, which took place on Wednesday, had a depth of 20 kilometers and was the largest that ever reached the region of Toshima village, which covers the archipelago.
Still, the city will help residents who want to leave the island. To the NHK news agency, the mayor of the village of Toshima, Genchiro Kubo, said that residents of all the islands that follow tremendous will be able to board this Friday (04) in the morning (this Thursday (03) at night, in Brazil time) in a boat for the house of relatives and family in other regions.
No one has been injured so far. The alert is still in force because the rain approaches the archipelago, which, added to tremors of greater magnitude, can cause landslides.
