Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA powerful earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast, and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami alert in the region.The quake, registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.5, occurred off the coast of Sanriku in northern Japan at around 4:53 p.m. local time, at a depth of about 6 miles below the sea surface, the agency said.Japan\u2019s NHK public television said a tsunami of up to 10 feet could hit the area shortly.It has been 15 years since a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, ravaged parts of northern Japan, caused more than 22,000 deaths and forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes, most of them due to tsunami damage.Some 160,000 people fled their homes in Fukushima because of the radiation spewed from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. About 26,000 of them haven\u2019t returned because they resettled elsewhere, their hometowns remain off-limits or they have lingering concerns about radiation.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A powerful earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast, and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami alert in the region.<\/p>\n
The quake, registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.5, occurred off the coast of Sanriku in northern Japan at around 4:53 p.m. local time, at a depth of about 6 miles below the sea surface, the agency said.<\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s NHK public television said a tsunami of up to 10 feet could hit the area shortly.<\/p>\n
It has been 15 years since a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, ravaged parts of northern Japan, caused more than 22,000 deaths and forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes, most of them due to tsunami damage.<\/p>\n
Some 160,000 people fled their homes in Fukushima because of the radiation spewed from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. About 26,000 of them haven\u2019t returned because they resettled elsewhere, their hometowns remain off-limits or they have lingering concerns about radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Powerful earthquake strikes off Japan, tsunami alert issued Updated: 3:41 AM CDT Apr 20, 2026 Editorial Standards \u24d8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7390,2084,7404,7394,7382,7396,3805,7397,625,7370,8,3276,4841,7386,7403,7402,7399,7384,7387,7392,221,7400,7389,6271,7393,7401,7385,7391,3809,7395,3278,7383,7398,7388,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-8439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-3-meters","9":"tag-agency","10":"tag-coast","11":"tag-coastal-japan","12":"tag-dhnd","13":"tag-disaster-alert","14":"tag-earthquake","15":"tag-emergency-response","16":"tag-fukushima","17":"tag-home","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-japan-earthquake","20":"tag-japan-meteorological-agency","21":"tag-magnitude-7-5","22":"tag-march","23":"tag-nhk-public-television","24":"tag-northern-coast","25":"tag-northern-japan","26":"tag-off-the-coast","27":"tag-offshore-quake","28":"tag-people","29":"tag-preliminary-magnitude","30":"tag-public-television","31":"tag-radiation","32":"tag-regional-alert","33":"tag-sanriku","34":"tag-sanriku-coast","35":"tag-sea-surface","36":"tag-seismic-activity","37":"tag-tremor","38":"tag-tsunami","39":"tag-tsunami-alert","40":"tag-tsunami-risk","41":"tag-tsunami-warning","42":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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