Employees at the Fukushima nuclear plant have been evacuated following occur again a new 7.1-magnitude earthquake that has followed a tsunami warning for waves up to a meter that arose minutes after the earthquake the epicenter of the quake - 7.1 magnitude earthquake the agency said Japan and 6.6 according to the U.S., took place 22 kilometers from the prefecture of Iwaki, south of the nuclear plant.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake had triggered a widespread tsunami that could reach U.S. and Canadian West coast, but it could cause a local. The company owns the plant, TEPCO said no changes in the parameters of radioactivity around the nuclear plant after the quake, which cut but the external power supply for a few minutes, to pump water into the reactor 1, 2 and 3.
Therefore, these units manually tried to cool the engines, TEPCO said. The quake was felt even in the capital, Tokyo, 170 miles south, where buildings shook a month after the magnitude 9 earthquake that devastated the country. Earlier, government spokesman Yukio Edan, announced it will expand the evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant within a month depending on the radioactivity is detected in different locations.
He said the new evacuation plans apply to places like Iitate, 40 kilometers of the plant, or the town of Minami Soma, which measured levels of radioactivity higher than allowed. So far, the Government maintained an exclusion zone of 20 km around the nuclear plant and recommended for those residents who are between 20 and 30 miles from the plant to remain in their homes or leave the area.
Edan said the new evacuations affect the half-dozen times to locations where the level of radioactivity can be harmful to health if citizens receive an exposure of between six months and one year. 
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake had triggered a widespread tsunami that could reach U.S. and Canadian West coast, but it could cause a local. The company owns the plant, TEPCO said no changes in the parameters of radioactivity around the nuclear plant after the quake, which cut but the external power supply for a few minutes, to pump water into the reactor 1, 2 and 3.
Therefore, these units manually tried to cool the engines, TEPCO said. The quake was felt even in the capital, Tokyo, 170 miles south, where buildings shook a month after the magnitude 9 earthquake that devastated the country. Earlier, government spokesman Yukio Edan, announced it will expand the evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant within a month depending on the radioactivity is detected in different locations.
He said the new evacuation plans apply to places like Iitate, 40 kilometers of the plant, or the town of Minami Soma, which measured levels of radioactivity higher than allowed. So far, the Government maintained an exclusion zone of 20 km around the nuclear plant and recommended for those residents who are between 20 and 30 miles from the plant to remain in their homes or leave the area.
Edan said the new evacuations affect the half-dozen times to locations where the level of radioactivity can be harmful to health if citizens receive an exposure of between six months and one year.
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