[guide.chat] news japan earthquake tsunami
- From: vanessa <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "GUIDE CHAT" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:43:33 -0000
Earthquake shakes northern Japan, causing small tsunami
Updated: Wed Mar. 14 2012 6:48:37 AM
TOKYO ? A strong earthquake shook northern Japan on Wednesday evening, causing
a small tsunami but no damage or injury was reported.
Several towns issued evacuation advisories to residents nearest the coast. A
swelling of 10 centimetres was observed in the town of Erimo on Hokkaido
island, while no major changes were reported elsewhere.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said the tremor was 6.8 magnitude and forecast
a tsunami of up to half-meter could hit Hokkaido island's central and eastern
Pacific coast, and Aomori and Iwate prefectures in the north of Japan's main
island.
Iwate prefecture, or state, was heavily damaged by last year's earthquake and
tsunami. Thousands of aftershocks have shaken the region since then, nearly all
of them of minor or moderate strength.
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, ravaged many
Japanese northern coastal towns, leaving some 19,000 people dead or missing.
Wednesday's tremor was centred about 235 kilometres south of Kushiro, Japan, on
Hokkaido island. It was a relatively shallow 10 kilometres below the sea
surface.
The quake was not felt in Tokyo, and there was no threat of a Pacific-wide
tsunami.
from
Vanessa The Google Girl.
my skype name is rainbowstar123
Other related posts:
- » [guide.chat] news japan earthquake tsunami - vanessa
