Japan’s Meteorological Agency says a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit near the Torishima Island in the Pacific Ocean.
The tremors were felt from Tokyo up to Fukushima, on Honshu, and felt in the southern part of Hokkaido. On the land the quake registered as a 4 magnitude using the Japanese quake scale.
So far no damage reported, and no fears of tsunami.
Japan’s NHK has interviewed survivors on the coast of North East Honshu.
Survivors in one coastal town say they have been told that the official tsunami height was put at 4 meters, for their area. They say that can not be, because sea wall tsunami barriers are built 10 meters high, and the tsunami easily went over the 10 meter high sea walls. One resident says the tsunami that hit their town had to be at least 14 meters high.
1 meter = 3.28 feet. 14 meter wave is 45.9 feet high.