A total of 16 gas leaks were reported in Kushiro, of which six were repaired by Wednesday morning. The rest was eventualy found undamaged. Damage to the city gas system in Kushiro was generally light compared with that in flicted by the 1993 January earthquake due to the retrofit work performed after the 1993 event. Power failure affected about 46,000 households in Hokkaido, but power was restored to most areas by midnight Tuesday. However, its effect was serious on some dairy farms remotely located from towns, because the blackout hindered milking cows.
Books fall down from shelves at an elementary school.
The most heavily affected were the water supply systems of cities and towns in eastern Hokkaido. On Thursday morning, about 11,000 were still without water. In Nemuro, the number increased to 6,450, about half of all households in the city. The number of households without water had decreased to about 2,600 by Saturday morning, October 8, and to 1,300 by Sunday evening in Nemuro, Bekkai and Nakashibetsu. Rails buckle due to subsidence of the embankment at Nemuto-Honsen Line.