Tsunami alert issued for northeastern Japan after M6.7 quake

The Japanese weather agency on Sunday issued a tsunami alert for Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 6.7 earthquake in the Pacific off northeastern Japan, which triggered a power outage and a temporary partial suspension of shinkansen bullet train services.Tsunami of up to 1 meter could reach the prefecture due to the temblor, which struck at 5:03 p.m. off the Sanriku coast at a depth of about 10 kilometers, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake registered 4 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in some parts of Iwate and Miyagi prefectures.A tsunami wave of 10 centimete…READ FULL ARTICLE