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- A three-metre high tsunami is possible after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake off Japan's northern coast late Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Monday.
December 8
15 minutes ago80 km off the coast
Verity Stevenson
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has upgraded the earthquake's magnitude to 7.6.
The tsunami warning has been issued for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori and Iwate, after the quake jolted a large part of Japan's north and east at 11:15 p.m. local time, Reuters reports.
The quake's epicentre was 80 kilometers off the coast of Aomori and was 50 kilometres deep, according to the agency.
Hi, I'm a member of the live page team. An earthquake was just reported off the coast of Japan and a tsunami warning has followed.
A maximum three-metre high tsunami is forecast for Japan's northeastern coast.
The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.2, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, according to Reuters.
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