First Tsunami Waves Hit Japan After 7.5-Magnitude Earthquake

Mumbai: A tsunami of 1.2 meters was confirmed to have arrived in Wajima city in Ishikawa prefecture of Japan after a strong 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit the country on Monday. A much higher tsunami of five meters was expected to arrive in Noto in the same region, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Officials have urged people to quickly leave coastal areas, with waves of up to 5 meters predicted, NHK reported, quoted the Japantimes.

Tokyo and the entire Kanto region felt the earthquakes. Japanese officials reportedly ordered individuals to relocate to higher ground, according to AFP. The Japanese government has stated, according to AFP, that no anomalies have been discovered in nuclear plants following the earthquake.

According to Japantimes, tsunamis with waves as high as three meters surged from Hokkaido to Nagasaki along the Sea of Japan coast. According to the study, a number of aftershocks occurred after the first 7.4-magnitude shock. Waves up to five meters high were expected to hit the Noto Peninsula.

The report also stated that as of 5 p.m., 11 earthquakes had been reported throughout Japan, with seven of those occurring in the Noto area. 80 cm waves reached Toyama Prefecture around 4:35 pm, and 40 m waves reached Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture. A tsunami was predicted to strike the prefectures of Yamagata and Hyogo.

The tsunami notice in the Noto Peninsula area, according to the Japan Times, was the highest level of three warnings and was equivalent to the alert that was issued following the Tohoku earthquake in March 2011.

According to AFP, some 33,500 families are without electricity as a result of the earthquakes in Japan. The road operator reports that numerous major highways are closed around the epicenter of a sequence of powerful earthquakes in central Japan.

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