Highest Intensity Registered at Sendai NPS Was 3 in the Kumamoto Earthquake

摘要

According to the seismograph installed in Sendai Nuclear Power Station, which has been in operation since its restart, when the main shock of the Kumamoto earthquake struck Kumamoto at 1:25 am on April 16 (a magnitude of 7.3 and an intensity of 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale), an intensity of 3 was registered at the first floor of the reactor auxiliary building, the surface of the ground, and the lowest floor of the reactor auxiliary building (on the bedrock) in Sendai NPS.