Snapshot from the USGS’s page on the earthquake.


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The Northwest Pacific Tsunami Center says that a large earthquake near Fukushima, Japan early this morning did not generate a tsunami. 

This morning’s earthquake was 7.3 in magnitude. Its epicenter was close to the last earthquake that generated a significant tsunami that struck the Pacific Northwest almost exactly 11 years ago, on March 11, 2011.

Read the Tsunami Warning Center’s message on today’s earthquake here.