Japan issues tsunami warning after strong earthquake – BBC News

Japan issues tsunami warning after strong earthquake – BBC News

Officials in Japan have issued a major tsunami warning after a powerful earthquake struck areas to the North Coast of the main island of honu the tremo which according to the US Geological Survey had a magnitude of 7.5 struck at just after 400 p.m. local time it happened in the Ishikawa area close

To the town of anamizu while this camera caught the moment the earthquake happened officials have urged people living in coastal areas to move to Higher Ground and we’re getting reports that some major highway ways have been closed but the agency which administers Japan’s nuclear power plants say they

Have not been affected around 33,500 households are without power Russia has also issued warnings for its Far Eastern sakin Island and is carrying out evacuations there our correspondent in the region Gene McKenzie is monitoring developments from Soul in South Korea so bring us at the very latest on

This so the major tsunami warning has been issued for the Noto region in this ish Kaa prefecture so this is in central Japan on the west coast they are warning that waves of up to 5 m High could hit that Coast at the moment there has been

Waves of up to 2 MERS but officials are saying that those waves could get big bigger we could see more of them there have also been tsunami warnings for the surrounding prefectures so they’re the prefectures of Nagata and Toyama and so people living in these coastal areas have been told to evacuate immediately

They’ve been told to go inland to Higher Ground or to go to the shelters people are being warned not to go to the coast not to try and look at the damage or see what’s happening that of course the first waves that hit are often not the biggest people are also being warned

That there may be a following earthquake a second earthquake there are still Tremors taking place in that region in that ish pre prefecture and of course some of the concern is partly linked to people’s memories of 2011 and the Fukushima disaster and I understand that the the chief cabinet secretary has said

That so far there no irregularities at any nuclear power plants following the earthquake but presumably as you say that that that’s still a concern with potential further Quakes yes absolutely so there are actually five nuclear power plants in this area that has received the major tsunami warning and just the tsunami

Warnings now at the moment they are not reporting any damages or any rise in radiation levels surrounding those plants but of course this could change and so they’re being monitored and as you rightly say I think there many people will be thinking about that design back in 2011 you know one of the

Biggest nuclear power plant disasters we’ve ever seen you know in this huge tsunami that hit Japan it was the biggest tsunam earthquake and tsunami Japan had ever recorded to put it into context the magnitude of the earthquake today is 7.5 that one back in 2011 that caused that Fukushima nuclear power

Plant disaster was magnitude 9 so it is a smaller earthquake that’s hit today and officials are monitoring those power plants closely and how prepared are people I mean given are there sort of you know is is is is other systems kind of different from what they were

Then Japan is an a country that is obviously used to a lot of earthquakes and it has good a good good warning system in place a good system of shelters and people are are being told to to seek those shelters and to go and find them now and so people in this area

Will be prepared and to know what to do now of course it’s getting dark now in Japan it’s just gone 6:00 in the evening so another thing that the authorities are saying to people is don’t try and go back to your homes when it’s getting dark stick together and get to those

Higher Ground areas or to those shelters we’ve seen some videos on social media of some initial damage so these are kind of small houses that have collapsed we haven’t seen much more at this stage and we haven’t had any reports yet of casualties or of deaths

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.

The first tsunami waves, some more than a metre high, have arrived in Wajima port in Ishikawa.

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