{"id":87983,"date":"2026-04-20T14:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87983"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:06:58","slug":"first-tsunami-waves-hit-japans-coast-as-earthquake-damage-is-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/20\/first-tsunami-waves-hit-japans-coast-as-earthquake-damage-is-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"First tsunami waves hit Japan\u2019s coast as earthquake damage is reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA21itRx.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=606&amp;y=113&amp;s=167&amp;d=167\" alt=\"Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to media after Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 struck off the northeastern coast of Japan, in Tokyo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A tsunami measuring 80 centimetres was detected at Kuji port and 40 centimetres at Miyako port, both located in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Japan<\/a>&#8216;s Iwate prefecture.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/bulletin\/news\/japan-tsunami-earthquake-warning-damage-iwate-b2960966.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A tsunami measuring 80 centimetres was detected at Kuji port and 40 centimetres at Miyako port, both located in\u00a0Japan&#8216;s Iwate prefecture. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Japan-megaquake.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87984,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87983\/revisions\/87984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}