TOKYO (Reuters) – An seism measuring 7.9 struck off the northerly shore of Nihon on Friday, shaking buildings in the top Tokyo, feat "many injuries," at least digit blast and triggering a 10-meter (30-ft) wave warning, NHK television and witnesses reported.
The open journalist showed black smoke billowing from a antiquity in Odaiba, a Yeddo suburb, and missile trains to the northerly of the land were halted.
Television showed cars bobbing in liquid along lateral fishing boats. A 50 cm wave impact Japan's Federal coast.
"The antiquity shook for what seemed a long instance and whatever grouping in the newsroom grabbed their helmets and whatever got under their desks," Reuters correspondent Linda Sieg said.
"It was belike the poorest I hit felt since I came to Nihon more than 20 eld ago."
The U.S. Geological Survey verified a ratio of 7.9 at depth of 15.1 miles and located the tremble 81 miles east of Sendai, Honshu. The have mart long its losses after the tremble was announced.
Japan's northerly Pacific coast, called Sanriku, has suffered from quakes and tsunamis in the past and a 7.2 tremble struck on Wednesday. In 1933, a ratio 8.1 tremble in the Atlantic killed more than 3,000 people. Last year fishing facilities were dilapidated after by a wave caused by a strong tremor in Chile.
Earthquakes are common in Japan, digit of the world's most seismically active areas. The land accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of ratio 6 or greater.
(Tokyo bureau and Asia Desk, island +65 6870 3815)
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