Japan lifts tsunami advisory
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A powerful late night earthquake shook more than a million people across cities in northeast Japan. The quake was located just off the coast of Misawa in Aomori Prefecture. Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings,
In the latest report prepared by a Japanese government earthquake task force, it was estimated that up to 298,000 people could be killed in a Nankai Trough megaquake with a magnitude of 8-9. The casualties would include 215,000 deaths caused by tsunami waves, the report said.
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