As if the people of Japan have not had enough the last month with the devastating earthquake, continuous aftershocks, and the ongoing potentially devastating nuclear disaster at Fukushima, then today another massive earthquake. A magnitude 7.4 earthquake which is larger than the '95 Kobe earthquake in Japan just struck off the islands coast which immediately triggered a Tsunami Warning.
The Weather Channel is reporting that it normally takes a magnitude 8.0 or larger to trigger a basin wide tsunami but a localized tsunami is possible with devastating effects.
No further information is yet available. We can only hope that no significant damage or devastation occurred and that the Tsumani Warning is precautionary and leads to nothing further.
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