{"id":74559,"date":"2011-03-11T11:36:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T07:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=74559"},"modified":"2011-03-11T11:36:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T07:36:24","slug":"massive-earthquake-rocks-japan-tsunami-warning-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/11\/massive-earthquake-rocks-japan-tsunami-warning-in-effect.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive Earthquake Rocks Japan. Tsunami Warning in Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive 8.9 magnitude quake has hit northeast Japan, causing a four-metre\u00a0tsunami along parts of the country&#8217;s\u00a0coastline, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/asia-pacific\/2011\/03\/2011311607470826.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Al Jazeera English<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NHK television reported many injuries and showed pictures of\u00a0major\u00a0tsunami damage in the north, with\u00a0cars, trucks, houses being swept away in Onahama city in Fukushima prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>Many people were injured after a roof caved in during a school graduation ceremony at a hall in east Tokyo, the fire department in the capital said, after the quake hit on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A large building was seen on fire in Tokyo.\u00a0The quake shook buildings in\u00a0the capital\u00a0for several minutes and sent people out onto the streets.<\/p>\n<p>The news agency AFP said multiple injuries, but no immediate deaths, were reported from the Pacific coastal area of Miyagi on the main Honshu island.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s NHK television showed black smoke billowing from a building in Odaiba, a suburb of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The quake that struck at 2:46pm was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks, including a 7.4-magnitude one about 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Tremors were felt as far away as in the Chinese capital, Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s meteorological agency warned that a tsunami as high as\u00a0six metres could strike the coast near Miyagi prefecture, closest to the epicentre.<\/p>\n<p>There was a warning of a 10-metre tsunami following the quake, Japan&#8217;s biggest in 7 years.<\/p>\n<p>The US Geological Survey\u00a0issued a tsunami warning for the entire Pacific coast of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said a tsunami warning was in effect for Japan, Russia, Marcus Island and the Northern Marianas. A tsunami watch has been issued for Guam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia and the US state of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive 8.9 magnitude quake has hit northeast Japan, causing a four-metre tsunami along parts of the country&#8217;s coastline.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10223,182,23237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}