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According to Japan’s national broadcaster NHK, a “major tsunami warning” was issued Monday after a powerful earthquake struck north of the country’s main island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Japan Meterological Agency reported a quake hitting Ishikawa and nearby prefectures, one of them measuring a preliminary magnitude of 7.4. The U.S. Geological Survey showed one quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were warnings of possible tsunami as high as 5 meters (yards) in the Ishikawa prefecture, and presenters on the national broadcaster urged people in the region to move quickly to higher ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to Japan’s national broadcaster NHK, a “major tsunami warning” was issued Monday after a powerful earthquake struck north of the country’s main island. The Japan Meterological Agency reported a quake hitting Ishikawa and nearby prefectures, one of them measuring a preliminary magnitude of 7.4. The U.S. Geological Survey showed one quake with a preliminary …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":99846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[6250],"tags":[6252,6253,6251],"class_list":["post-99845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-japans-west-coast","tag-powerful-earthquake","tag-tsunami-warning"],"yoast_head":"\n