New Delhi, Jan 1 : Several regions in Russia’s Far East have been put on tsunami alert on Monday after a series of powerful earthquakes rocked the central part of Japan, generating waves as high as 5 meters in some areas.
Earlier in the day, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued tsunami warnings for a broad swath of the country’s western coast, including Ishikawa, Fukui, Niigata, Toyama, Yamagata and other prefectures, after a series of strong earthquakes with major ones measured at up to 7.6 magnitude struck a wide area on the Sea of Japan coast in central Japan.
According to the weather agency, the major temblor occurred at 4:10 p.m.local time (0710 GMT) at a shallow depth, registering a maximum 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture.It also shook buildings in central Tokyo.
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