Tsunami alert after Chile quake

Tsunami alert after Chile quake

MINAMISOMA, Japan - A police officer keeps watch on the sea at a fishing port in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, at 5:24 a.m. on April 3, 2014, after a tsunami alert was issued. A tsunami of up to 40 centimeters was observed in the early morning that day at a port on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 8.2 quake that hit Chile on April 1, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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