Japan Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Alerts

0:00It's April 20th. This is California News today, AI-powered stories from your city. A powerful earthquake rocked the waters off Japan's northern coast, triggering tsunami alerts from the Japan Meteorological Agency right away. Officials worn of waves possibly reaching 3 meters, or about 10 feet, along coasts in Iwate, Iowate, to the north, and south eastern Hokkaido, while milder advisories cover Miyagi and Fukushima farther south. In Iowate prefecture, leaders sent out evacuation notices to residents in 11 towns, urging them to move to higher ground even though it's voluntary. This shakes things up just months after 7.5 magnitude quake in December, injured dozens, and exactly 15 years on from the, devastating 9.0 trimmer on March 11th, 2011, that claimed over 22,000 lives and displaced nearly half a million, people. These are monitoring closely now, ready to update as the situation unfold to cross those

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