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Earthquake rocks Japan, no tsunami threat for Hawaii
Report text as determined by voice-to-text, if available: Joining us on this saturday night. Another powerful earthquake has rocked northeastern japan. Kathy muneno joins us from the forecast center. Kathy? Thanks marisa. The quake was a seven point one “moment” but a sevenpointzero magnitude quake, according to the us geological survey. Either way it was very powerful it struck at about eleven am japan time, about three this afternoon hawai’i time . at a depth of about elevenmiles. The epicenter was about 131 miles east of sendai, 155 miles east of fukushima, home to the damaged nuclear facility after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in march. That quake was magnitude nine. The pacific tsunami warning center says no threat of a tsunami for hawai’i today, and although there were tsunami warnings for japan, there are reports of waves only a few inches high. No immediate reports of damage. “we know a little bit more about the earthquake now and it’s more like strikeslip earthquake, more like the earthquakes you have in california where the earth’s crust moves sideways rather than up or down the sideways motion is not very efficient in generating a tsunami. ” scientists say today’s quake was an aftershock, one of the more “powerful” aftershocks of the quake in march, which, together with the tsunami it generated, left nearly 23thousand people dead or missing. . marisa back to you.
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