A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck offshore of Japan's crippled nuclear
power plant early Saturday Oct 26,2013, triggering small tsunamis but causing no
damage
An earthquake official with the Japan Meteorological Agency said the
quake was an aftershock of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that
struck the same area in 2011
The epicenter of the
2:10 a.m. Tokyo time (1710 GMT) quake was about 290
kilometers (170 miles) off Fukushima, and it was felt in Tokyo, 300
miles (480 kilometers) away
Japan's meteorological agency issued a 1-meter (3-foot) tsunami advisory
for a long stretch of Japan's northeastern coast. It put the quake's
magnitude at 7.1, while the U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude
of 7.3. The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not post warnings
for the rest of the Pacific
The meteorological agency reported tsunamis of 40 centimeters in Kuji
city in Iwate prefecture and Soma city in Fukushima, as well as a
20-centimeter tsunami at Ofunato city in Iwate and a 30-centimeter
tsunami at Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture
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