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One-metre tsunami hits at Ishinomaki, in Miyagi, Japan

New quake hits Japan’s disaster region, Yahoo News, 7 Dec 12“……….The one-metre tsunami hit at Ishinomaki, in Miyagi, at the centre of the devastation from the March 2011 disaster. All Miyagi trains halted operations and Sendai airport, which was flooded by the tsunami last year, closed its runway.

Narita airport outside Tokyo was back in action after a brief closure for safety checks.

“Citizens are now escaping to designated evacuation centres and moving to places on higher ground,” office worker Naoki Ara said in Soma, 30 kilometres from the Fukushima-Daiichi plant.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda cancelled campaigning in Tokyo ahead of a December 16 election and was on his way back to his office, but there was no immediate plan to hold a special cabinet meeting.

Public spending on quake-proofing buildings is a big election issue…… http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/15583335/tsunami-rolls-ashore-after-after-7-3-japan-quake/

December 7, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized