A “major tsunami warning” for a broad area of central Japan has been issued in the wake of a powerful earthquake.
The warning is uring people to quickly leave areas of the Asian country’s western coast, including in the prefectures of Ishikawa, Niigata, Toyama and Yamagata.
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