Japan Lifts Tsunami Advisories After Philippines Quake
The weather agency issued tsunami advisories covering a sweeping stretch of coastline, from Ibaraki Prefecture on Japan's eastern Pacific coast down to the island prefecture of Okinawa in the south.
The largest waves — measuring approximately 20 cm — were recorded at Chichijima Island in the Ogasawara Islands south of Tokyo, as well as at Kushimoto Town in Wakayama Prefecture and Miyazaki Port in Miyazaki Prefecture. Multiple locations across Kagoshima, Mie, and Miyazaki prefectures recorded waves of around 10 cm, while minor tsunami activity was also reported in Okinawa and surrounding areas.
All tsunami advisories were lifted as of 4:50 p.m. local time.
At the height of the alert, more than 195,000 people across 10 prefectures — including Chiba, Kochi, and Okinawa — were urged to evacuate, media reported, citing the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
The advisory followed an earlier tsunami warning issued in the Philippines, where the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) subsequently cancelled its own alert after determining that recorded wave heights posed no significant threat to coastal communities.
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