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posted by on Tuesday November 22 2016, @05:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the splash-damage dept.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/japan-earthquake-east-coast-1.3861065

A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan early on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a small tsunami that hit the same Fukushima region devastated by a 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

The magnitude 7.4 earthquake, which was felt in Tokyo, sent thousands of residents fleeing for higher ground as dawn broke along the northeastern coast.

[...] There were no reports of deaths or serious injuries several hours after the quake hit at 5:59 a.m. local time. It was centred off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at a depth of about 10 kilometres, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.

NewsHub (New Zealand) reports:

Small tsunami waves have hit a number of cities on the eastern coast of Japan after a 6.9 magnitude quake struck off the coast of the country.

The waves ranged from 90 centimetres [3 feet] in height at Soma Port in Fukushima to a 60 centimetre wave [in] Onahama Port in Fukushima.

[...] In [the city of] Iwaki [in Fukushima Prefecture], a man recorded[1] a [...] wave just after 7am local time.

[...] The Meteorological Agency says a tsunami measuring 1.4 meters [4.6 feet] reached Sendai port in Miyagi [Prefecture, just north of Fukushima Prefecture].

[1] The video is behind a script.

Early projections had been as high as 3 meters (10 feet).


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday November 22 2016, @08:36AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday November 22 2016, @08:36AM (#431129) Journal

    It wasn't merged in before the first submission was turned into a story, so I added it in and deleted the submission.

    If I wanted to give you 3 karma I could have posted the submission and then deep-six it by setting the date to 1970. But you don't have an account so that doesn't matter.

    There is no indication on the front page because your part and the bottom part with the Original Submission links are in Extended Copy, so the story needs to be clicked for the full text to be seen. This is hinted at by the link that says "240 words in story" on the front page.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @10:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @10:10AM (#431147)

    Ah. Yes. I must be sundowning. [google.com]

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