Japan tsunami warning as nation in worry after enormous 6.9 earthquake

Japan has bit hit by a huge magnitude 6.9 earthquake. The country has now been warned a tsunami may be set to follow, the Japan Meteorological Agency.

At around 9.19pm an earthquake occurred with its epicentre in the Hyuga-Nada Sea, a region in the Pacific Ocean of the south coast of Japan. The magnitude of the earthquake is estimated to be around 6.5, with a maximum seismic intensity of around 5+.

An X user who experienced the earthquake described feeling ‘a slow horizontal shake’.The depth of the epicentre was approximately 30km, according to NERV Disaster Prevention, a disaster information distribution system designed to deliver real-time alerts for earthquakes and tsunamis.

The extent of damage is not immediately clear.

Japan is frequently hit by earthquakes because of its location along the “Ring of Fire”, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.

The X user wrote: ‘It was shaking. At first it was a slow horizontal shake. I feel like there are more earthquakes happening in the Hyuga Sea recently…’

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