Live Breaking News: Powerful quake in Japan tears down homes and triggers tsunami warnings
Powerful quake in Japan tears down homes and triggers tsunami warnings. This is a Live Breaking News Coming.
We’re just hearing that Japan’s meteorological agency has downgraded its tsunami warnings along the Sea of Japan to “advisories”.
This means that waves expected are one metre or less – previously the agency was warning of waves up to three metres high.
However, the agency says people should remain alert for more possible earthquakes, Japanese broadcaster NHK reports.
It’s just gone 01:30 in Japan (16:30GMT). Once daylight returns we can expect to get a clearer picture of the damage caused by the huge earthquake that hit central Japan earlier.
Japan has issued a major tsunami warning after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the central region.
A series of earthquakes also struck nearby areas, with residents in several coastal prefectures told to evacuate.
Footage from Japanese broadcaster NHK shows the moment an earthquake shook Suzu, on the coastline in Ishikawa prefecture.
Here’s what we know so far:
- One person has been reported killed after a building in Shika town collapsed, while Japan’s National Police Agency says two people in Ishikawa prefecture suffered cardiac arrests – their condition is not known
- Several people have been injured in Ishikawa, Niigata and Fukui prefectures, and the fire departments in the cities of Wajima and Suza have received reports of people buried under rubble as well as collapsed buildings
- A huge fire broke out in Wajima – a firefighter told AFP news agency fire engines struggled to reach the scene because of damaged roads
- More than 30,000 households around the epicentre were without power, local utilities said
- Water supplies have been cut off in some areas, while the East Japan Railway Service has halted operations on some of its services
Joseph Tame, who moved to Japan from the UK in 2008, has told the BBC he felt the earthquake from his home just north of Tokyo – 320 miles (514 km) away from the epicentre.
“The house that we’re in is about 40 years old and was shaking a fair bit,” he said.
“It was quite a shock,” he added.
Tame said he had contacted a friend who lived very near the epicentre.
“He told me he, his partner and their cat first evacuated to the roof of their building because of the tsunami risk,” he said.
“But when they realised the earthquakes were continuing they realised they had to get off their building because it’s not strong enough so they moved to another building.
“He said it was shocking as the shaking is so violent.”
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