# Fukushima Residents Advised to Evacuate After Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Warning (Yes, Again)

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**Created:** [November 21, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-residents-advised-to-evacuate-after-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-warning-yes-again/772682 "2016-11-21T22:12:14Z")
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### Author: ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-residents-advised-to-evacuate-after-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-warning-yes-again/772682/1 "2016-11-21T22:12:14Z")

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The originally-measured 7.3 quake has been downgraded to 6.9, [which has still triggered a tsunami warning](http://jezebel.com/fukushima-residents-advised-to-evacuate-immediately-aft-1789233469) for the area of Honshu. There have been aftershocks around 5.1-4 as well.

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### Author: ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-residents-advised-to-evacuate-after-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-warning-yes-again/772682/2 "2016-11-21T22:14:49Z")

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I think a tsunami has been spotted and is incoming. This is going to be bad.

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### Author: ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-residents-advised-to-evacuate-after-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-warning-yes-again/772682/3 "2016-11-21T22:24:27Z")

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[And backwash has already been spotted](http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/21/asia/japan-earthquake/index.html?sr=twCNN112116japan-earthquake0926PMStoryLink&linkId=31412772), per CNN.  
Backwash adds to what will be the tsunami’s destructive power.

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### Author: ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-residents-advised-to-evacuate-after-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-warning-yes-again/772682/4 "2016-11-21T22:28:12Z")

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NHK Live feed:

> **[Watch Live TV | NHK WORLD-JAPAN](http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/)**
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> Japan's sole public media organization delivers to the world the latest information about Japan and Asia 24 hours a day.

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### Author: ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-residents-advised-to-evacuate-after-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-warning-yes-again/772682/5 "2016-11-21T23:20:18Z")

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Announcer on NHk is saying it has been revised again, now to 7.4 and depth revised to 25km.

Quake struck at 5:59am local time. They have the full day to deal with any damage in daylight.

First tsunami wave was 90cm. Have a tsunami warning out indicating possibility of a tsunami of more than 3 meters is still possible.