Tokyo: An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck Japan’s prefecture of Ishikawa, the weather agency said on Monday.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning along the western coastal regions of Ishikawa, Niigata and Toyama prefectures,
Following temblors measuring the top level on Japan’s seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7, tsunami warnings have been issued, Xinhua news agency reported.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV warned torrents of water could reach as high as 5 meters (16.5 feet) and urged people to flee to high land or the top of a nearby building as quickly as possible, The Associated Press reported.
