On April 1, a 5,4 magnitude earthquake hit eastern coast of Honshu Island of Japan. The quake epicenter was in the Pacific, 50 km south-west of Senday city at the depth, ITAR-TASS reports.

On March 31, a 6,2 magnitude earthquake hit Miyagi prefecture in Japan. The quake epicenter was 126 km north-east of Sendai town at a depth of 39,6 kilometers. No tsunami warning was issued.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, reported earlier, on March 11, the biggest earthquake (9 magnitude) in the recent years hit the northeast of Japan, triggering a 10-meter tsunami and followed by several powerful aftershocks. The epicenter is located 373 to north-east from Japan’s capital, Tokyo at the depth of 24 kilometers. A massive earthquake damaged cooling functions of the Fukushima nuclear plant, making the operator to pour seawater into reactors and let out radioactive air into atmosphere.  On March 19-21, traces of radiation were found in milk and spinach in farms near Ibaraki prefecture.