Liputan6.com, Tokyo – Japan again reminded of the vulnerability of their territory to earthquakes. For just one week of the island of Tokara, located in the south of Japan, they were shocked more than 1000 times more than the earthquake, which makes local residents physically and mentally exhausted.
Since June 21, seismic activity in this region has sharply jumped. Even on Wednesday this week, an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 was registered, which caused an emergency press conference by the Japanese agency of meteorology.
“Since June 21, earthquakes in the sea around the Tokar Islands are very active,” said Ayatak Ebita, director of the surveillance department of earthquakes and tsunami, quoted from Globalnews on Friday (4/7/2025).
“Until four o’clock in the afternoon, the number was more than 900 today,” he said, warning the inhabitants to always be ready to hide or evacuate if a stronger earthquake occurs.
The next day, the number of registered earthquakes reached 1000. This situation forced 89 residents on a small island in the southern region to begin to evacuate.
Tokara, which is located in one of the most active seismic ways in the world, is actually used to the earthquake. Japan itself is located in the area known as the Pacific Ring, where many tectonic plates are found that force this country when it collides about 1,500 earthquakes every year. But this time, the frequency and length of a series of earthquakes made many residents feel safer.
On some small islands, a limited infrastructure is a serious problem. The absence of hospitals makes medical services that can only be achieved after a ferry trip for six hours.
“It seems that the Earth has never ceased to tremble,” said a resident of the local broadcasting station of MBC.
“We are even afraid to sleep.”
Other residents claimed to think about the evacuation of their children.
“I don’t know when it all ends,” he said with anxiety.
The workers in the south -west of Japan on Tuesday work on cleaning the road, which is blocked by small landslides and repair of underground water pipes, the day after the earthquake of 6.6 on the Richter scale hit the area.
