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A powerful 7.1-magnitude of Sunday's earthquake in northern Japan. Tsunami Consulting Japan, were issued after an earthquake in Tokyo, breaking news reporting. Warning was later lifted.

According to Reuters, Fukushima earthquake nuclear plant workers for injury or high ground, no immediate reports of damage caused to immigrants. Tokyo Electric Power said it was a nuclear plant does not appear to be any further damage.

In March, Japan veryo earthquake and tsunami in the country, and the havoc wreaked in the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake epicenter at 10:57, about 130 miles east of Sendai am.

The earthquake was more than 20 miles deep and was magnitude 7.0, USGS said.

Earthquake magnitude is measured on a 7.1 JMA.

Tsunami to Iwate Miyagi and Fukushima advisories were issued for coastal areas, JMA said.

Most of the year was devastating earthquake and tsunami affected areas.

There was no immediate reports of disorder near a nuclear plant, according to the semiofficial Kyodo news agency. There are no immediate reports of injuries or damage, the agency said.

Far from earthquake shocks were felt as far away as Tokyo.

Earthquakes local time (0057 GMT), 9:57 and hit the beach northeast of tsunami warning was issued for the majority. The main island of Honshu, Japan earthquake, the Pacific Ocean coast 6 miles (10 km) was set up in the bottom center of the mother.

Japanese officials say the 20-inch (50 cm) above the prediction of earthquakes can produce tsunamis, but only the initial wave 4 inches (10 cm) were.

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Kyodo News reported that some 2,000 bodies were found off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, and Japan Meteorological Agency said that another three meters wave moves toward the coast following the television reports of a tsunami is not know.

A wave of several tens of centimeters to greater than anticipated, the Japanese Meteorological Agency officials said in a live broadcast shown on public broadcaster NHK, reported that the three meters high wave from a fire department helicopter was taken care of Fukushima prefecture.

North Sea was reportedly out of Honshu Island, an event that happens before the giant waves hit, and the former residents were ordered to higher ground in Iwate Prefecture seen retreating and sirens sounding in the town of Soma are.

Tsunami alert after an earthquake comes - on a Friday, many of the nine massive earthquake shaking. This was a 5.8-magnitude, U.S. Geological Survey said, and hit at a depth of 18 km from Ibaraki, Japan, shaking tall buildings in the capital.

Meanwhile Fukushima nuclear plant operator said TEPCO reactor had survived an explosion, Jiji Press reported.

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On Thursday, European Union governments agreed to ban companies from investing in or otherwise assisting Iran's oil and gas industry -- measures that went well beyond a U.N. Security Council resolution last week that reiterated international demands that Iran forswear nuclear weapons. Along with the United States, Australia, Japan, South Korea and other countries are set to adopt or strengthen their own sanctions against trading with Iran.

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