Report: Small tsunami hits Japan after 6.8 earthquake

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

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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