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Earthquake Hits Northern Japan, Tsunami Alert Issued<\/strong><\/p>\n A significant earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan on Monday afternoon, triggering a tsunami alert by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 7.5, occurred near Sanriku at approximately 4:53 p.m. local time, at a depth of about 6 miles beneath the sea.<\/p>\n Reports indicate that a tsunami measuring around 2.6 feet was recorded at Kuji port in Iwate prefecture, while another port noted a wave height of 1.3 feet. Authorities in Iwate have issued non-mandatory evacuation advice for residents in 11 towns, cautioning that waves as high as 10 feet could potentially strike the area.<\/p>\n This recent event recalls the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused extensive damage in Japan, resulting in over 22,000 fatalities and displacing nearly half a million people. In that disaster, many fled their homes primarily due to the tsunami\u2019s impact.<\/p>\n As communities prepare and respond, safety remains a top priority for residents in the affected regions.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earthquake Hits Northern Japan, Tsunami Alert Issued A significant earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan on Monday afternoon, triggering a tsunami alert by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 7.5, occurred near Sanriku at approximately 4:53 p.m. local time, at a depth of about 6 miles beneath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[19304,18897,1977,18898,2028],"class_list":["post-29405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news","tag-disasters","tag-earthquakes","tag-japan","tag-tsunami","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}