A 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook
Japan early Saturday, 26 October, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The quake was off the Fukushima
region of Japan, 231 miles east off the island of Honshu.
It was 6.2 miles deep, officials
said, hit at 3:10 a.m. Saturday local time and was felt 300 miles away in
Tokyo.
The Japan Meteorological Agency
reported a one-foot tsunami was observed after it issued a yellow-colored
warning Saturday morning, meaning a small tsunami could reach the coast at
Fukushima, site of Japan's 2011 nuclear power plant disaster.
There were no immediate reports
of damage from the temblor, which Japanese authorities classified as ranging
from magnitude 6.8 to 7.1. No irregularities were reported at the Fukushima
Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
A yellow warning is issued when a
tsunami is not expected to exceed three feet, significantly smaller than the
tsunami that hit the energy plant in March 2011.
Yellow tsunami advisories are the
lowest of three categories of alert issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency,
below red-colored tsunami warnings and purple-colored major tsunami warnings.
Japan's nuclear reactors are
still suffering from the 9.0-magnitude quake that struck in 2011: Only two of
50 across the country are back online since the quake and its resulting
tsunami. The Dai-ichi nuclear power plant was rocked by huge radiation leaks.
About 19,000 people were killed
in the 2011 disaster.
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