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Japan issues major tsunami alert after Chile quake |
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(02/28/2010)
Tokyo, PAB-Online
Japan's weather agency issued a major tsunami alert for its Pacific
coastline Sunday after the massive earthquake in Chile that has killed
more than 300 people.
The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that waves of up to three metres (10 feet) could hit the northern coastal areas of Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi.
The agency also issued tsunami warnings for waves of up to two metres along the entire Pacific coastline of the Japanese archipelago, from the northern main island of Hokkaido through the southern Okinawa island chain.
First waves could hit the Pacific coast of Hokkaido and the central Izu region of the main island at around 1 pm (0400 GMT), the agency said.
The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said earlier that the tsunami warning it had put in place after Saturday's 8.8 magnitude earthquake has been cancelled everywhere except Japan and Russia.
However several nations in the Pacific, including Australia, said their own local tsunami warnings remained in effect after the Chile quake, one of the largest on record.(AFP/IP)
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