Tsunami alert lifted

October 25, 2013

Tsunami advisory lifted after M7.1 quake

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20131026_06.html

Japan's Meteorological Agency has lifted its tsunami advisory following an earthquake.

A magnitude 7 point 1 quake struck around 2:10 AM local time off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture.

Agency officials issued the warning for the coastlines of five prefectures. They withdrew it 2 hours later.

The officials noted a tsunami reached the country's northeastern coast just before 3:00 AM. But they said the sea's fluctuation gradually diminished.

Tohoku Electric Power Company officials said they measured a 55-centimeter tsunami at a port at Miyagi Prefecture's Onagawa nuclear plant.