Tsunami warnings have been issued in the Ishikawa, Niigata and Toyama prefectures after a number of earthquakes – one with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 – hit the country’s central west coast. Footage circulating on social media showed shaking inside shops and a railway station. NHK TV warned torrents of water could reach as high as 5 metres and urged people to move to high land or to the tops of buildings
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