April 7th - 7.1 Mag Earthquake Hits Japan

[shri]

Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits off Japan coast - Yahoo! News

TOKYO – Officials at Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant say there's no immediate sign of new problems after a magnitude-7.4 aftershock rattled the nation's eastern coast.
A nuclear safety official says the workers at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant are safe but does not know if they have been evacuated.
The metereorological agency issued tsunami warnings and advisories for a stretch of more than 300 miles of the northeastern coast from Aomori prefecture in the north to Ibaraki prefecture in central Japan, just north of Tokyo.
Announcers on Japan's public broadcaster NHK told coastal residents to run to higher ground and away from the shore.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

[PDLM]

Yes, but only a relatively small (2m) tsunami is predicted.

[MovingIn07]

Any more news on this?

EDIT - other sites seem to indicate that nobody was killed (a few injuries); no tsunami and no further damage to the nuclear plant (although workers were evacuated).

[shri]

Seems like they dodged the proverbial bullet on this one.

[Satay Sue]

what i heared was that Japenese people don't like to tell people all friends the bad things ....and friends will avoid to them ....coz they don't want bring the bad luck ...i don't know if is true or not

Never heard this before! Not true (I lived in Japan for many years)

[Brown_By_Nature]

Another one again I'm hearing.

[shri]

One more this morning while I was watching Bloomberg. "Only 5.x" ...

[Star Gazer]

TOKYO (AFP) – An increasing number of people are experiencing motion sickness in Japan due to hundreds of aftershocks since the massive earthquake of March 11, physicians say.

"We are seeing a sharp increase in the number of patients complaining of dizziness," the Mejiro University Clinic, which specialises in ear, nose, and throat conditions, said on its website.
"They are likely experiencing 'earthquake sickness', a condition similar to motion sickness," the hospital's chief physician Hideaki Sakata wrote on his blog.