UPDATE 10.56 CST – TSUNAMI ALERT LIFTED

UPDATE 10.50 CST – Video taken in Tokyo of a blinding blue light witnessed on the horizon at the time of the quake is causing a stir. Sky News reports that the light could be a phenomenon thought to occur due to intense electromagnetic activity with the movement of tectonic plates.

UPDATE 10.22 CST – No damage, casualties in Miyagi Pref. as of 11:55 Thurs.: police

UPDATE 10.20 CST – The quake has been revised down to a mag 7.1.

UPDATE 10.19 CST – Japanes Weather agency sees Miyagi quake as aftershock of March 11 temblor.

UPDATE 10.16 CST

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Japan was rattled by a strong aftershock Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast.

The Japan meteorological agency initially issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one metre, but that was later lifted.

The warning was issued for a coastal area already torn apart by last month’s tsunami, which is believed to have killed some 25,000 people and has sparked an ongoing crisis at a nuclear power plant.

Announcers on Japan’s public broadcaster NHK told coastal residents to run to higher ground and away from the shore. Residents along the northeast coast were being evacuated.

The U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday’s quake was a 7.1-magnitude and hit 40 kilometres under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. The quake that preceded last month’s tsunami was a 9.0-magnitude.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/04/07/japan-quake.html?ref=rss