Tsunami warnin:The earthquake, 8.8 on the Richter scale hit Japan calls for a tsunami warning has been issued in the Pacific.
Although the earthquake shook Tokyo, one of the most congested and built worldwide, no deaths were reported.
The first quake struck 382 kilometers north of Tokyo, said the Geological Survey of the UB.
tsunami warning system was released in Japan, Taiwan, Russia and the Mariana Islands and Guam, the Philippines, Marshall Islands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Micronesia, and Hawaii were placed in a low-level alarm.
Waheed Hussain as from the Maldives Department of Meteorology has confirmed that a tsunami warning was issued minutes after the earthquake in the Pacific. No warning had been issued to the Indian Ocean, "he said.
Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, which followed the earthquake off the coast of Indonesia, 83 people died and more than 20,000 displaced people in the Maldives. At the global level was over 220 000 people lost their lives.
Structure and the atolls of the Maldives suffered very would be protected by the 2004 tsunami, unlike the gentle slope on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, the waves to gather strength and momentum.
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