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A little boy prays for his relatives killed by the 2011 tsunami at a cemetery in Minamisoma in Fukushima prefecture on March 11, 2013. Japan on March 11 marked the second anniversary of a ferocious tsunami that claimed nearly 19,000 lives and sparked the worst nuclear accident in a generation. AFP PHOTO/ Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were ordered to evacuate as a precaution.
TOKYO: A 30-centimetre tsunami hit Japan late last night after a powerful and shallow undersea quake, reports said. There were no immediate signs of serious damage or injury.
People were being warned to stay away from the coast with the small wave rolling ashore in Ishinomaki around an hour after the 7.1 magnitude quake.
Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were “ordered to evacuate from the waterfront”, Kyodo reported, also quoting the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) as saying no new abnormalities had been found at the power station.
The quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres at 2:10am local time (2110 UAE time), 327 kilometres southeast of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, according to the US Geological Survey.
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