Thursday, April 7, 2011

7.4 Earthquake Hits Japan, Tsunami Warnings Issued

An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 7.4 struck Japan on Thursday prompting Japanese officials to issue tsunami warnings and advisories in specific prefectures, according to CNN reports:

“The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake was a magnitude of 7.4. The U.S. Geological Survey said it was 7.1. There were no reports of casualties from anywhere in the earthquake zone, the National Police Agency said. Workers evacuated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the quake, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said. Tokyo Electric said it has communication with the plant and the power is still on there. There were no immediate reports of damage, it said. The quake's epicenter was off the coast of Miyagi in northeastern Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.”

A witness recalls the incident via the CNN Report

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An earlier report from WFTS ABC 28
in Tampa, Florida stated:

“Announcers on Japan's public broadcaster NHK had told residents in the northeast to move to higher ground away from the shore. The warning was for the same area devastated by last month's tsunami, which is believed to have killed some 25,000 people and has sparked an ongoing crisis at a nuclear power plant.”


See
the video coverage from the WFTS report HERE.

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