7.1 earthquake strikes Japan. tsunami issued notice - CNN International

Powerful earthquake strikes off the coast of JapanNEW: The JMA cancels all notice of tsunami Kyodo said no immediate anomalies have been reported near nuclear plantsThe earthquake struck Sunday morningTremors are felt as far as Tokyo

(CNN) - a major earthquake struck off the coast of the northeastern coast of the Sunday Japan, prompting tsunami view cancelled later, said the Meteorological Agency (JMA) Japan.

Small tsunamis were observed along the coast, measuring between 10 and 20 centimetres, said the JMA.

There was no immediate report of injuries or damage, the Japanese news agency Kyodo.

U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake at 10: 57 a.m. at the epicenter, about 130 km from Sendai.

The earthquake has more than 20 miles and had a magnitude of 7.0, the USGS said.

The JMA measured the magnitude of the earthquake to 7.1.

Tsunami advisories have been issued - and then cancelled - for the coastal regions of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. The domains were among the hardest hit by the devastating earthquake and tsunami of this year.

Officials in Ofunato, a city of Iwate, advised residents to evacuate.

The JMA, immediately after the earthquake, prediction of that the height of the tsunami could reach half a metre (20 inches).

No immediate anomalies have been reported in the vicinity of nuclear facilities, according to Kyodo.

Three reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant failures suffered after the March 11 earthquake and the tsunami that devastated the North of the Japan. The tsunami overwhelmed the plant and eliminated cooling systems which prevented three reactors operation of overheating, leading to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

Sunday earthquake tremors are felt as far as Tokyo.

"It's just a continuous replicas of this devastating 9.0," said Dale Grant, a Geophysicist with the USGS, referring to the shock of March. "These kinds of aftershocks are likely to occur for some time."Yoko Wakatsuki of CNN have contributed to this report.

New Zealand civil defence alert tsunami - Reuters

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(WELLINGTON 7 Jul Reuters) - the New Zealand civil defence authorities said they expected stronger than normal ocean currents and an increase in the size of the waves on the coast is, but no wall of water after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean east of the country.

A tsunami warning was issued for coastal areas east of the island of the North, including the main town of the Auckland country, with the first scheduled just wave before 9 local time (2100 GMT).

However, the U.S. Pacific Tsunami Center has issued the warning original after the earthquake, later cancelled its warning, but reported waves were 2 2-2, 7 feet high on Raoul Island, the main island in the Kermadec (68-84 cm).

The civil defence of New Zealand has maintained a warning that people should stay out of the water and beaches in the areas of the target.

"We could get enough extreme currents, so it is a threat to the ships, but we do not anticipate the damage to the Earth," Clive Manly controller of civil defence in the Auckland region, told radio New Zealand.

He said, that it is possible that waves of up to a metre above normal heights can occur.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake at 7: 03 p.m. Thursday (1903 GMT Wednesday) at the epicentre, 131 miles (211 km) of Raoul Island, part of the Kermadec Islands, and was only 30 miles (48 km) deep, the USGS said.

The Kermadec Islands are uninhabited except for science and conservation teams and sit to 1180 kilometres north of the New Zealand.

They sit in a geologically active region of the South Pacific where the plates tectonic Pacific and Indo-Australian meet, and large earthquakes are not unusual.

The New Zealand is more alert to earthquake since the city of Christchurch in the South Island, was struck by two earthquakes devastating last September and February this year. The latter has killed 181 people and caused a NZ about 15 billion dollars in damage.

(Gyles Beckford)