Tsunami warning in Japan after strong earthquake | BBC News

Just to bring you up to date with the breaking news that we’ve had this morning that in the last hour a very powerful earthquake has struck Central Japan prompting a major tsunami warning the 7.6 magnitude Quake hit the Noto Peninsula close to the town of anamizu Japan’s prime minister fumio kishida has

Urged people in coastal areas to evacuate immediately and to move to Higher Ground as further earthquakes are expected in the coming hours so these pictures that we can show you right now are the latest ones that have been coming in to us on social media so these are not independently verified by the

BBC these are on social media just in the last hour or so initial reports suggesting a tsunami of 1.2 M High has already hit the coast of wajima city with warnings that the waves could reach up to 5 m now more than 36,000 homes have lost power in the last couple of

Hours Japan’s Chief cabinet secretary has confirmed there are so far no irregularities at any nuclear power plants but the authorities are continuing to monitor for any possible damage now the very latest information that we have is that a a news conference with Japan’s weather agency is expected to be broadcast in the next

Hour and I think we can take you to live images being run by Japan State broadcaster right at the moment these are the live images from uh NHK and they have been warning for the last hour of um various levels of tsunami you can see on the screen at the

Moment they’re warning of a height of 3 m and one MERS but we know in other parts of Japan it has been up to 5 MERS but the the main thing that you can see is that in the top right of your screen those words evacuate immediately that’s

For the coastal areas that you can see highlighted on the map there

Japan has issued a major tsunami warning after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the central region.

Residents in the coastal Noto area in Ishikawa prefecture were asked to “evacuate immediately to higher ground,” national broadcaster NHK said.

Authorities have warned of waves as high as 5m in Noto.

They also issued tsunami warnings for neighbouring Niigata and Toyama prefectures, where they said waves could reach 3m.

Public television flashed “EVACUATE” in big letters, urging residents to flee to higher ground despite the winter weather.

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