Azerbaijan, Baku, March 12 / Trend R. Darakhshan /
Azerbaijani Embassy in Japan has not received complaints from fellow citizens residing in the country in connection with a devastating earthquake on Friday, Azerbaijani ambassador to Tokyo Azer Huseynov told Trend on Saturday morning.
"According to available information, all [the citizens of Azerbaijan] are all right. But we still keep in touch [with our compatriots]. According to information available at the moment, no Azerbaijani citizens have been affected by the earthquake," Huseynov said.
Huseynov said over 50 Azerbaijani citizens temporarily live and study in Japan, of them about 30 live in Tokyo and the rest in other cities.
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 hit Japan's northeastern coast. The quake's epicentre is thought to have been 24 kilometers below the ocean off the Miyagi prefecture. It shook buildings in Tokyo, some 373 kilometers away.
Several more powerful aftershocks with magnitude above 6.0 took place in the same area, the epicenter of one of them was located only 67 kilometers from Tokyo. The magnitude of the strongest aftershock was 7.1.
Immediately after the earthquake information was received about emergency stop in a number of Japanese nuclear power plants. Interruption in power supply as a result of the earthquake caused disruption of reactor cooling on the nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
According to official data for 10:00 (5:00 Baku time), 287 people died, while 725 people went missing and 1,046 injured.