AAP
August 19, 2011, 6:15 pm
•Japan on edge
A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake has struck off Japan's northeast coast, prompting a tsunami alert.
Disaster-weary Japan has been rattled by another strong quake, which measured at a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, triggered a tsunami warning and sent people diving for cover.
The Friday quake struck the Pacific seabed not far from the epicentre of the March 11 quake-tsunami disaster that killed more than 20,000 people and triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl 25 years ago.
Sirens again wailed along the devastated northeast coast, where people have been terrified by hundreds of aftershocks over the past five months, and the quake also caused buildings to sway across Tokyo.
The tremor struck at a depth of 20 kilometres off the Pacific coast, 80 kilometres southeast of Miyagi prefecture, at 2.36pm local time (15:36 AEST), according to a preliminary report from the meteorological agency.
The agency issued a 50-centimetre tsunami warning but called it off after only very small waves were seen lapping at the coast.
The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), quickly said there were no reports of fresh damage or abnormalities after the latest quake.
TEPCO spokeswoman Ai Tanaka told AFP that emergency workers were briefly evacuated but that "there is no abnormality in our cooling operations at the plant. Radiation gauges did not show any abnormal change either."
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami in the broader Pacific Ocean.
In the coastal city of Ishinomaki, where more than 4000 people were killed in the March 11 disaster, tsunami sirens wailed, buildings shook strongly and some office workers dived for cover under their desks.
An hour after the quake there were no reports of injuries or damage.
"We are in the middle of gathering information about any damage," Yumi Sato, a spokeswoman for the Ishinomaki City Office, said by telephone.
"We called on citizens through the disaster public address system to evacuate to high ground.
"Inside the city office, no objects fell down due to the quake. But it shook very much and a number of employees hid below their desks because we all remembered the March earthquake."
Japan, located at the junction of four tectonic plates, experiences 20 per cent of the strongest quakes recorded on earth each year.
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26 COMMENTS
Lida C0
5:00pm Friday 19th August 2011 EST Report Abuse
What a relief to heard that Japan is alright after this earthquake and thankfully no-one are injuries or dead..........however still feeling sorry for your country and hope that in the near future things will be better than this..
cheekyoziechick
05:04pm Friday 19th August 2011 EST Report Abuse
My heart goes out to that country. They have had enough already. Stay safe Japan. Oh and HAARP leave them alone...ok!
L
05:20pm Friday 19th August 2011 EST Report Abuse
Look, God, I'm sorry but... it's getting old. Leave the Japanese alone... please.
Dale
05:27pm Friday 19th August 2011 EST Report Abuse
payback time for all the crimes they commited in the warComment hidden due to its low rating. Show
Gigal
05:37pm Friday 19th August 2011 EST Report Abuse
Brace yourself Japan..! It's not a payback time as Dale said,but it's just unfortunate time for you and opportunity for Dale to comment indecently. May God forgive you..
Greg
05:37pm Friday 19th August 2011 EST Report Abuse
Dale's remark was both heartless and brainless. Japan was a military dictatorship (under the Emperor) all through the 1930s and World War II. The Japanese people suffered under the dictatorship just like the people of China, Indochina, Malaya, Burma, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. Don't ever blame a people collectively for the crimes of their government, particularly when it's a dictatorship.
Mike White
05:51pm Friday 19th August 2011 EST Report Abuse
harrp at it again
Campbell
05:56pm Friday 19th August 2011 EST Report Abuse
Greg don't bother. Guys like Dale don't understand facts. They are just sad people who never amounted to anything and want someone to vent their anger on to. You can't reason with a person like that. Just let them die and sink away into nothing.
Jack
05:57pm Friday 19th August 2011 EST Report Abuse
Poor Japanese People !! Not only they have to suffer the earthquakes and tsunamies but the worst is the presence of the US military bases and the polution and contamination that this occupation mean on their soils (though for people like Dale the two atomic bombs that the japanese people endure it wasn't enough. His ignorance is just pathetic!!!)...
GARY
06:02pm Friday 19th August 2011 EST Report Abuse
Waves of up to 50 centimetres! I can make bigger waves by farting in the bath and believe me apart from the smell they won't do any damage ! Who researches these stories ? 50 centimeters for crying out loud thats only just short of 20 inches in real measurements. Don't think I would have headed for the hills.
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