japan is on high alert after a powerful earthquake hit the north coast of the main island of honshu, followed by a series of strong aftershocks. officials issued a major tsunami warning, urging people to move to higher ground. tsunami warnings were also issued in south and north korea and far east russia. japan s metorological agency says the quake had a magnitude of 7.6. it struck at just after ii:00pm local time, with its epicentre in the ishikawa area, close to the town of anamizu. several buildings are reported to have collapsed in the nearby town of suzu. this cctv video footage filmed appears to show two constructions collapsing. you can see clouds of dust forming above the wreckage at the top left and right of the screen, and the roof on the building in the foreground cracking apart. some tsunami waves, atjust over a metre, have already reached the coastline. these pictures were filmed in nearby niigata. there were warnings that waves coule be up to five metres in plac
russia has also issued warnings for its far eastern sakhalin island and is carrying out evacuations there. our correspondent in the region, jean mackenzie, is monitoring developments from seoul in south korea. the major tsunami warning has been issued for centraljapan, on the west coast, they are warning that waves of up to five metres could hit that run. at the moment there have been waves of up to two metres but officials are saying that there was waves could get bigger, we could see more of them, there have also been tsunami warnings for the surrounding prefectures including toyama. people living in these coastal areas have been told to evacuate immediately, to go inland to higher ground water go to the shelters, people are being warned not to try to go to the coast to see what is happening, but of course to the first waves that hit are often not the biggest, people are often not the biggest, people are being warned that there could be there are still tremors taking plac
hello. we begin injapan, where a powerful earthquake and several strong aftershocks have hit the north coast of the main island of honshu destroying buildings and starting fires. in the last half hour, a major tsunami warning telling people in the coastal noto area to move to higher ground was downgraded. tsunami warnings have also been issued in south and north korea and far east russia. japan s metorological agency says the quake had a magnitude of 7.6. it struck just after 4pm local time, with its epicentre in the ishikawa region, close to the town of anamizu. several buildings are reported to have collapsed in the nearby town of suzu. this cctv video footage appears to show two coming down. you can see clouds of dust forming above the wreckage at the top left and right of the screen and the roof on the building in the foreground cracking apart. there are reports of people trapped in the rubble of collapsed houses. some tsunami waves ofjust over a metre, have reached t
hello i m lauren taylor. officials injapan have issued a major tsunami warning after a powerful earthquake struck areas to the north coast of the main island of honshu. several powerful aftershocks have also been recorded. the tremor which according to the us geological survey had a magnitude of 7.5 struck at just after 4pm local time. it happened in the ishikawa area close to the town of anamizu. several buildings are reported to have collapsed in the nearby town of suzu. this camera caught the moment the earthquake happened. officials have urged people living in coastal areas to move to higher ground. some tsunami waves ofjust over a metre have already reached the coastline. there are warnings that waves of up to five metres could follow. this video shows the moment the tremor happened inside a supermarket. we re getting reports that some major highways have been closed and more than 33,000 homes have lost power supplies but the agency which administers japan s nuclear powe