Pacific Tsunami warning after Japan's 8.9 magnitude earthquake

9:22 AM Fri 11 Mar 2011 GMT

'Japan earthquake 11/03/11' Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii has issued a Tsunami warning for the Pacific Ocean. The Tsunami wave could be higher than some low lying Pacific Islands. The warning follows a massive earthquake that has struck 120km off the north-eastern coast of Japan at a depth of 10km. At its epicentre this quake was 1000 times stronger than the recent Christchurch earthquake and is the strongest recorded earthquake in Japan. The earthquake happened off the Japenese coast near Sendai and is the sixth largest earthquake every recorded anywhere in the world. The offshore earthquake triggered a four metre Tsunami ...

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