Japan Tsunami Warning After the Earthquake

Japan Tsunami Warning After the Earthquake. Japan tsunami warning given after the 6.7 magnitude earthquake in the northeast, blowing the area most affected by the earthquake and tsunami disaster March 11. However, the meteorological agency lifted the warning about an hour after the last shock occurred at 6:51 (0851 GMT) about 50 kilometers from the east coast of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, at a depth of 20 kilometers in the Pacific. The USGS also recorded an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the depth of 32 kilometers.

Japanese agency warned that tsunami of 50 cm can be expected in this region, but no warning was issued at the Fukushima nuclear crisis centers in the country. Public broadcaster NHK reported no immediate reports of damage from the quake, while no significant high waves followed. Local governments were given evacuation orders to 8000 households in Iwate, NHK said. Shinkansen bullet train services delayed, while no new damage to nuclear power plant in Onagawa Miyagi, Iwate south, which has been out of operation since the disaster March 11, NHK said.

Northeast coast of the main island of Honshu in Japan were destroyed by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami monster on March 11, leaving nearly 23,000 people dead or missing. The disaster also crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which caused the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986, and forced hundreds of thousands of residents fled their homes.

Canceled The Warning.

News Update for Japan earthquake by CNN (June 23, 2011), of earthquakes with intensity of 6.7 occurred off the top of the Pacific coast of northern Japan early Thursday, Japanese and U.S. seismologists reported.

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Japan Meteorological Agency warned that tsunami can form by the earthquake, but canceled the warning less than an hour after the earthquake. Kamaishi Ofunato coastal cities and ordered about 8,000 homes near the coast to evacuate, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported, but no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The train service in the area are temporarily suspended, but returned to operation within an hour, NHK reported. The quake struck shortly before 7:00 (18:00 ET Wednesday) and was center 530 kilometers (330 miles) north-northeast of Tokyo. Epicenter was in northern Iwate prefecture, about 175 kilometers (109 miles) north of where the magnitude 9 earthquake that hit northern Japan in March destroyed.