Report: Small tsunami hits Japan after 6.8 earthquake

Map of Japan.
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A small tsunami has struck the coast of Japan after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit the northern part of the country early Tuesday.

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Fishermen in ports in the Iwate Prefecture say that a roughly 10-centimeter tsunami hit the largely rural area, the Japanese broadcaster NHK reports. There is a nuclear plant in the area that was not damaged, NHK says, and Takashi Furumura, a professor at the Center for Integrated Disaster Information Research, told the station that the region is not likely to get hit by a major tsunami.

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Catherine Garcia

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.