Three earthquakes within an hour rattled Japan today. The tremors triggered a one-metre high tsunami waves in the same area devastated by last year's Fukushima disaster but there were no immediate reports of deaths or serious damage. The epicenter of the quake was reported to be off northeastern Japan.
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.
The first earthquake that occurred around 1: 48 pm has the intensity of 7.3 on the Richter scale. The earthquake was followed up with two other tremors of 6.2 and 5.5 magnitude in the same area.
The March 2011 earthquake and the following tsunami killed nearly 20,000 people and triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years when the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant was destroyed, leaking radiation into the sea and air.
