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To: StanX Long who wrote (62383)	3/27/2002 4:48:46 AM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

"OT" sadly I just read this, I wish everyone the best. Powerful quake rocks Japanese islands sg.news.yahoo.com A powerful earthquake rocked Japan's Okinawan islands in the East China Sea, registering an estimated 6.9 on the Richter scale, the Meteorological Agency. But there was no immediate report of casualties or damage and the agency lifted a tsunami (tidal wave) warning less than an hour after the tremor occurred at 00:46 pm (0346 GMT) Tuesday. The agency located the epicentre of the tremor at a point south of Okinawa's Ishigaki Island, lying close to Taiwan and roughly 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) southwest of Tokyo. The focus of the quake was some 10 kilometres (six miles) below the seabed. "We did not feel the quake or monitor a change in the level of the tide at all," Hirofumi Tamashiro, a disaster control official at the Ishigaki city office, told AFP by telephone. "According to the local weather observatory, they felt a low-intensity jolt at an islet south of here but the tsunami warning was issued because of its high magnitude," Tamashiro said. "The quake's impact was minimal since its focus was so deep down." The agency had warned that a tidal wave measuring 2.0 metres (six feet six inches) could hit the Miyako and Yaeyama islands at the south of the chain. NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.) had advised residents to evacuate to higher ground.